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First Line: "o mother dear, jerusalem"
Last Line: "to sing thy praise, o god of hosts! / forever and amen!"
Subject(s): Heaven;jerusalem; Paradise


A BALLAD FOR CHRISTMAS-TIDE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
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


A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter from my love today!
Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve
Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A BIT OF HEAVEN, by GERTRUDE D. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Child of the slums, how happy
Last Line: Is a child—or a tramp—or a beast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, G. Gertrude
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


A CATCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along comes love / in the semblance of a boy
Last Line: And grief turned joy!
Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Boys; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Paradise; Songs


A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by THOMAS BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father in heaven, lift us into the light
Last Line: In gloomy spirits, through the coming year.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Heaven; Life; Prayer; Nativity, The; Paradise


A COUNSEL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh weep for the glory departed
Last Line: And have paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hope; Dead, The; Paradise; Optimism


A DOOR OPENED, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Might a door but be opened in heaven!
Last Line: Ascends, a crowned conqueror, to him.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seemed not as a dream, and yet I stood
Last Line: For trials lost, be shed beyond the grave.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


A DRAMA OF EXILE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice in the clefts of gehenna
Last Line: Falling tears of angel.]
Subject(s): Eden; Gabriel; Heaven; Devil; Paradise; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


A DREAM OF HAPPINESS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One sat and modelled a most perfect face
Last Line: Conceiving heaven, he lived without its gate.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Heaven; Joy; Delight; Paradise


A DREAM UNFINISHED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a dream unfinished; only a form at rest
Last Line: With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Summer; Nightmares; Paradise


A FAREWELL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart
Last Line: Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere I have read or heard it
Last Line: For thy gift — for montefiore.
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Prayer; Religion; Paradise; Theology


A GIRL'S SONG, by H. THOMPSON RICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shadows fall and deepen
Last Line: I lift my lips to thee.
Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Paradise


A GOOD MAN, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He lived a very blameless life
Last Line: But none remembered quite his name.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Good; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


A HAVEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: East and north a waste of waters, south and west
Last Line: Where the small town smiles, a warm still sea-side nest.
Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise


A HYMB OF FAITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, thou that doth all things devise
Last Line: To overlook the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Life; Belief; Creed; Paradise


A KISS, by M. ELLEN HOWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is a kiss? A mystery true
Last Line: It is god and heaven and home—in you.
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paradise; Male-female Relations


A LITANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the bright lights of heaven
Last Line: O lord our god.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Light; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime


A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE GORDON GABELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little bit of heaven
Last Line: Is sent to earth below!
Subject(s): Good; Heaven; Paradise


A NEREID (2), by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold tauris' beaches
Last Line: From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands drifting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Paradise


A PAGE'S ROAD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesu, / if thou wilt make
Last Line: Jesu.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Trees; Paradise


A PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell, dear alexis, tell thy damon, why
Last Line: Whom present you revere, him absent praise.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Heaven; Life; Soul; Tears; Paradise


A PAUPER ENTERS HEAVEN, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood within the gleaming gates of pearl
Last Line: "let me go back! Oh, god, please let me go!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


A PRAYER TO THE FATHER OF HEAVEN, by JOHN SKELTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O radiant luminary of light interminable
Last Line: And, after this life, to see thy glorious face.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


A PROTEST, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The horses bisect the field
Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Song: 4
Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise


A SERVIAN LEGEND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago, ere yet our race began
Last Line: "man will I create with a foot like thine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Evil; Heaven; Legends; Paradise


A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fine cataracts of falling mountain water
Last Line: While dressed in ice skates and the long green gown.
Subject(s): Heaven; Loss; Moose; Skeletons; Paradise


A SPIRITUAL LEGEND, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were who spiritual legends feigned
Last Line: Thus he, the legend spiritual who feigned.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Paradise; Holy Spirit


A STAR-GAZER GOES HIGHER, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He read the vaulted heavens for his book
Last Line: What fadeless stars, what never-setting sun?
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 3, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the head of great methuselah
Last Line: I cry against thee; thou art worst of all.'
Subject(s): Children; Dragons; God; Heaven; Methuselah; Childhood; Paradise


A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din
Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise


A THOUGHT OF PARADISE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green spot of holy ground
Last Line: Hath lost -- the dower of inborn paradise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees
Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


A VISION OF SUMMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a marvelous vision of
Last Line: With a tremulous patter of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Summer; Vision; Paradise


A WASTED VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Couldst thou not watch with me one hour? Behold
Last Line: Thou couldst not watch with me.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Moon; Night; Wakes; Sunrise; Paradise; Bedtime


A YEAR AFTERWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things are so changed since last we met
Last Line: And the same stars and silent sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


A YEAR IN HEAVEN, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One year among the angels, beloved, thou hast been
Last Line: Love chime the hours immortal, in earth and heaven the same.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEPTIMA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens are very blue
Last Line: Be still, o earth, be still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountain Climbing; Paradise


ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AD ASTRA: 108, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O little lives, brought thro' the starry gloom
Last Line: From joyless life, drawn from degenerate veins?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 126, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How else had the pharaonic priesthood curb'd
Last Line: That their own perseverance did not steal?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


AD ASTRA: 143, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For, if there be no heaven nor hell-but here
Last Line: —man true to man, and earth were heaven indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; World; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 151, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O would that god had wrought his meaning plain
Last Line: The sun by day, the moon and stars by night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 152, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And still another, 'only minds diseased
Last Line: Or the bright soul, its fair and heavenly guest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 154, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And others, more defiant in their tone
Last Line: What answer that can wholly set at ease?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


AD ASTRA: 158, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Except like little children ye believe
Last Line: Faith that shall open wide the gates of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death - Children; God; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 161, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old man's judgment in the hour of death
Last Line: And happy peace, the olive branch of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 165, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should we dread the silence of the tomb?
Last Line: The soul soars toward the glory whence it came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement


AD ASTRA: 170, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What signifies that anglican and greek
Last Line: Yet ever the crook of christ would all enfold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 171, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yea: unity!-but under god, not man
Last Line: Ah, from this bond may closer union spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Togetherness; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All things must die, all things must have an end
Last Line: And love will guide us thro' death's dark defile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne
Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 79, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To those exalted sons of greece and rome
Last Line: They strew'd with palms the path which jesus trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


ADAM THE FIRST, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gendarmes of heaven with flaming swords
Last Line: To hell and desolation.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Heaven; Eve; Paradise


ADEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is not far,' the violet saith
Last Line: "that burns above."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


AFTER A READING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the seven times seventh time love would
Last Line: Dear.
Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Love; Childhood; Paradise


AFTER OUR LADY'S PRESENTATION, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wife, my wife our journey o'er
Last Line: To her according to thy word!
Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women In The Bible; Infants; Paradise; Virgin Mary


AFTERMATH, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the fields where thou hadst mown in summertide
Last Line: If her feet have hallowed for an aftermath?
Subject(s): Catholics; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise


AKIBA, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart, who art a fable, new and true
Last Line: Aye, kissed by god, your feet on crowns have trod.
Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Death; Heaven; Israel; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism


ALAODIN'S PARADISE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And oh! What odours the voluptuous vale
Last Line: Of man, for once, partook a common joy.
Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Paradise


AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh lost garden paradise
Last Line: And the blessed door made fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise


AN APOSTOLIC MAN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O brothers, is the moment past?
Last Line: "love one another, and farewell."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


AN EASTER SONG, TO ROSEMARY, AET. 10, by A. L. MACKENZIE JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mine is the gift and you the giver
Last Line: And we'll play in the halls of paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackenzie, Archibald L., Jr.
Subject(s): Easter; Heaven; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Paradise; Theology


AN ELEGIAC THOUGHT OF MRS. ANNE WARNER: MRS. WARNER ARRIVES ABOVE, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold her ancestors (a pious race)
Last Line: "die, and partake my bliss; we are for ever one."
Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mortality; Waiting; Paradise


AN ELEGY ON MR. THOMAS GOUGE: MR. MEAD, MR. BATES, AND MR. GOUGE, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven was impatient of our crimes
Last Line: Then took a dismal aim, and brought great gouge to dust.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Vengeance; Dead, The; Paradise


AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)"
Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise;


AN EMISSARY TO HEAVEN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray snow adrift whirled down the wind
Last Line: Dawn -- and our errand sped!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


AN IDEAL FUTURE, by T. ARUNDEL HARCOURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I seldom ponder the 'future life'
Last Line: That maketh the slumber deep.
Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Paradise


AN INVOCATION, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O death! O grave! O endless world beyond!
Last Line: Nor darken one forgiving smile of heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


AN ODE (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At mary's tomb, (sad sacred place!
Last Line: And thou sustain'st the orb below.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Heaven; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement


AN ODE (6), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, dearest villiers, poor departed friend
Last Line: And equal rites perform to that which once was thee.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


AND AFTER--WHAT?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas omar said--and it was strangely true--
Last Line: The shrouding blackness does not finish all?
Variant Title(s): And After-what?
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


AND THE HEAVENS SHALL YIELD THEIR DEW, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, that art the trust, the strength
Last Line: "and the heavens shall yield their dew!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol
Subject(s): Faith; God; Heaven; Jews; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Judaism


ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old days god sent his angels oft
Last Line: God bless you all, our angels unaware!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


ANNIE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not for earthly bread, annie
Last Line: To dwell in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Life; Love; Roses; Paradise


ANOTHER TO HIS EVER-LOVING GOD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou bidst me come; I cannot come; for why
Last Line: For, 'tis no easie way from earth to heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below
Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise


ANY MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no height, no depth, my own, could set us apart
Last Line: Body of mine and soul of mine, do I not know?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; God; Heaven; Hell; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Clemency; Paradise


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I scorn the heavenly plains above me
Last Line: Beside my wife in statu quo!
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Paradise


ARMAND BARBES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire
Last Line: Thy day shall be commensurate with time.
Subject(s): Fire; Heaven; Love; Soul; Paradise


ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think
Last Line: And their ascension thus supply.
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise


ASPHALT AND CHROMIUM GLORY, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go, build your sky-scrapers higher and higher
Last Line: Beauty shall drape the mildewed bone.
Subject(s): Cities; Heaven; Life; Sky; Urban Life; Paradise


ASTROMETAPHYSICAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, I have loved your sky,
Last Line: Me up, not down
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


AT BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills
Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise


AT HOME IN HEAVEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forever with the lord!
Last Line: And life eternal gain.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


AT REST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I lie down to sleep, and see no more
Last Line: At rest -- at rest! What better thing to say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Heaven; Rest; Paradise


AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven
Last Line: But never to be divided more.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE GROUNDS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pause passer, and thy thoughts a moment bend
Last Line: As they whose girdles wear the keys of fate.
Subject(s): Fate; Heaven; Destiny; Paradise


AT THE PLAY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in a theatre the amused sense
Last Line: Death takes the lights, and we go home to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise


AT THE TOMB OF SENANCOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sevres before a tomb I stood and read
Last Line: We know he made us not to live in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


AT TWILIGHT, by MAX ENDICOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gentle peaceful gray
Last Line: That knows of neither church nor soul.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


BABYLON, by RALPH HODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you could bring her glories back!
Last Line: Will take her to itself again.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


BACK, MY SOUL, by YEHUDA HALEVI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back my soul, into thy nest
Last Line: Be thou the courtier.
Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Soul; Paradise; Judaism


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time
Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark.
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


BE WITH US, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We raise, o lord, the massy pile
Last Line: And peace eternal fill the heart.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


BE-ALL, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The insect clings
Last Line: Will become belong.
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Longing; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


BEAUTY & RESTRAINT, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We decided to make nothing definite
Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Paradise


BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree
Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there.
Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


BESIDES THAT, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could get to heaven
Last Line: Besides that!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


BEYOND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We must not doubt, or fear, or dread
Last Line: And that which makes this life so sweet shall render heaven's joy complete.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; Paradise


BEYOND?, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What lies beyond the splendour of the sun
Last Line: To seek where god has hidden himself away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


BIRDS OF PARADISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden-winged, silver-winged
Last Line: The paradise of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Paradise: In A Symbol
Subject(s): Birds; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Paradise


BLOOM THAT NEVER DIES, by MARTHA C. COCHRAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere the blossoming field of god
Last Line: A bloom of peace that never dies.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


BORODIN, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world was loveliness I was
Subject(s): Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887); Composers; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


BOUND TO THE MAST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mildly falls the deluge of the grass
Last Line: Bound to the mast of song.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise


BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes
Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism


BY THE WAYSIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer's face was rosiest, skies and woods were mellow
Last Line: Fair as heaven and kind as earth?
Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Love; Summer; Paradise


CALLING ME, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you
Last Line: Kiss me as I fall asleep.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


CANZONE: OF HIS DEAD LADY, by GIACOMINO PUGLIESI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, why hast thou made life so hard to bear
Last Line: Be thine. Even so
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


CANZONE; FOR TED BERRIGAN, 1934-1983, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I crisscross my feelings with a view
Last Line: I was there & I was there by the window onto you.
Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Heaven; Loss; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Paradise


CARLOS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I knelt low at my lady's feet
Last Line: So has another paradise been lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Kisses; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime


CELESTIAL HEIGHTS, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Steep ascents and winding ways
Last Line: Ploughed by the cares of men!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains
Last Line: At the moon or the sun!
Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by HAROLD DEBREST    Poem Text                    
First Line: You see these slender tapers standing there
Last Line: Its way to god and immortality.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism


CHARITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue
Last Line: For ever blessing, and for ever blessed.
Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Knowledge; Moses; Religion; Paradise; Theology


CHARTLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never saw a moor
Last Line: As if the chart were given.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Heaven; Religion; Sky; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Theology


CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ocean's waves to the hollow caves murmur
Last Line: A veil to be by eternity but ne'er by time with-drawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Churchyards; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


CHRIST LIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out through the night there shines a star
Last Line: Deflected by you, christ's light divine.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Light; Stars; Paradise


CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How hushed they were in heaven that / night
Last Line: To man it seemed a star.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Heaven; Stars; Nativity, The; Paradise


CIVITAS DEI, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh splendours unattainable!
Last Line: At last the height is won.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As though the dead cities
Last Line: In the heights of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise


COIN OF THE REALM, by ETTA MERRICK GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Invest in the first bank of heaven!
Last Line: Will pay, for in him do we trust.
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; God; Heaven; Paradise


COME UNTO ME, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the low voice call that bids me come
Last Line: Shall I not hasten to that heavenly place?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


COME UP HIGHER, by MINNIE KEITH BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come up higher; the air is rarer
Last Line: And heaven is nearer -- come up higher.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


COMING, by BARBARA MILLER MACANDREW    Poem Text                    
First Line: It may be in the evening
Last Line: "and he will come."
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


COMPARISON, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some tell us heaven is perfect-bright and fair
Last Line: Earth, too, is fair, and god pronounced it good.
Subject(s): God; Good; Heaven; Paradise


CONFICENCE IN HEAVEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is in vain the weary spirit strives
Last Line: A soul that trusts in heaven, though thus of all bereft.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Belief; Creed; Paradise


CONQUEST, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh conqueror, what is left to win?
Last Line: "our earthly heavens are—just outside."
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise


COULD I FORGET!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Could my wakening spirit but forget
Last Line: My love now dead, but once so wholly mine!
Subject(s): Death; Forget-me-nots; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise


COURAGE, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the man who dares to face defeat
Last Line: And god's great city lets the victor in.
Subject(s): Courage; Heaven; Valor; Bravery; Paradise


COWSLIPS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children run and leap
Last Line: Go where they please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Heaven; Keys; Childhood; Paradise


CRYSTAL PALACE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning by morning I look up at the twin / towers
Last Line: If I but clapped my hands.
Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read
Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise


CUTHBERT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful mother / of a beautiful boy
Last Line: Welcomed by christ who has conquered the grave!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Mothers & Sons; Death - Babies; Paradise


DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the depth of silence
Last Line: Where life will be retold.
Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunshine faded from the room
Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


DEAD IN SIGHT OF FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! Dead! Dead!
Last Line: Will see it and be reconciled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Fame; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Reputation; Paradise


DEATH, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why be afraid of death, as though your life were breath?
Last Line: And work, nor care to rest, and find the last the best.
Variant Title(s): Emancipation
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


DEATH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the shadows of sadness
Last Line: "into our home -- ""sweet home""."
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


DEBORARH YORK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: All along this fair 'foreside'
Last Line: Deborah york, a queen art thou.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Saints; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


DEFINITION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As clouds lie in the west
Last Line: In your deep firmament.
Subject(s): Boundaries; Heaven; Sky; Borders; Paradise


DICK SAID: * (CONCERNING HEAVEN), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, heaven's hard to understand
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 14. THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And lo! Forthwith there rose up round about
Last Line: That held me in so sweet imprisonment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 31. THE SAINTS IN GLORY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then
Last Line: All paradise surveyed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 7. SIN AND REDEMPTION, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I have heard
Last Line: "humbled himself to put on mortal flesh."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


DIVINE VISITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens lay hold on us: the starry rays
Last Line: After the chase in burning exultation.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


DO YOU NOT KNOW?, by KATHERINE RUGGLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear heart, have you not learned
Last Line: That heaven bends low?
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Soul; Paradise


DOOMSDAY: TREASURES IN HEAVEN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: That happy squadron is not question'd now
Last Line: We see how hardly rich men go to heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


DREAMS, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a hill, facing heaven, I have prayed alone
Last Line: I would be in the valley, with four walls and you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


DREAMS ARE BEST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just think that dreams are best
Last Line: Oh, I think that dreams are best!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


DREAMS OF HEAVEN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream'st thou of heaven? What dreams are thine?
Last Line: "farewell, beloved! -- farewell!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Immortality; Paradise


DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN, by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peter at heaven's gate wearied of the game
Last Line: Rat-a-tat -- rat-a-tat -- tir-r-r-rah -- tah-tah!
Subject(s): Heaven; World War I; Paradise; First World War


DULCIORA, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tear that trembles for a little while [or, space]
Last Line: The breath of one who breathes in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): Lines
Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Paradise


DULL DEVOTION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Me thought heavn calld me, when I heard ye bell
Last Line: And so in heavn aforehand dwell.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise


DURAND, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the ancient house of balbi
Last Line: Through the empty halls of heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Sleep; Youth; Paradise


DURAND OF BLONDEN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tow'rds the lofty walls of balbi, lo! Durand of blonden hies
Last Line: "ever calling, ""blanca! Blanca!"" through the desert halls of heaven."
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise


EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water calmly flowing
Last Line: In heaven is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise


EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes
Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday


ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we
Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement


ECSTASY, by IRMA THOMPSON IRELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: No need have I for drink but my desire for thee
Last Line: For death is sweet if this be paradise!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


EFFICIENCY EXPERT, by LLOYD STONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through dreamy eyes she gazed into the night
Last Line: "shall we dance?"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ELDORADO, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaily bedight / a gallant knight
Last Line: If you seek for eldorado!'
Subject(s): Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Paradise; Work; Workers


ELEONORA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How many years have passed away
Last Line: Eleonora.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: View not this spire by measure given
Last Line: While deathless charity remains.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism


EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look
Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise


EPITAPH: 6, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither of earth nor heaven here she lies
Last Line: Poor troubled ashes, gentle and unwise.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


EPITAPH: A LADY I KNOW, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She thinks that even up in heaven
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ETHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure air the soul demands
Last Line: Heaven's dome of blue.
Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise


EULALEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eulalee, sweet eulalee
Last Line: "I look and hear—""I love you yet!"
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


EUTHANASIA, by WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Methinks, when on the languid eye
Last Line: Where streams of living waters run!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


EVENTIDE, by MARY AGNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark! What is this I hear?
Last Line: Leaving behind a lump of clay.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


EXPECT!, by WILLIAM PIERSON MERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Expect the best! It lies not in the past
Last Line: Expect the best!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


F.R.H.'S THANKS, WITH 'SONGS OF GRACE AND GLORY' TO CLARA OVERTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet flowers of spring
Last Line: In heaven above.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grace; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


FALLING STAR, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He did not meet them in the cloud
Last Line: A star has fallen to the dark.
Subject(s): Heaven; Rifles; War; Paradise


FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in a dream, I saw a man
Last Line: Who signs his nom de plume, the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Reputation; Paradise


FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few
Last Line: —look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise


FAREWELL TO EARTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell! Farewell!
Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


FASTING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What though her face be pale? This onely showes
Last Line: Keeps her stomach fresh for paradise.
Subject(s): Heaven; Humility; Sacrifices; Strength; Paradise


FICHTE'S GRAVE; DOROTHEENSTADT CEMEMTERY, BERLIN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rests a pilgrim at his journey's end
Last Line: The power to cleanse, illumine, and inspire.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Graves; Heaven; Rest; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


FINGERS OF GOD, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At sunset, the lord of the sky
Last Line: I had been touched by god's fingers.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Religion; Shintoism; Sky; Paradise; Theology


FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore
Last Line: O come quickly, glorious lord, and raise my sprite to thee!
Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Theology


FLAX SEEDS IN BLOSSOM, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Graciously smiling, the heavens were generous
Last Line: Heaven-like! Beautiful! Flowering flax!
Variant Title(s): Flax Fields In Blossom
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise


FLEETING TO THE SPIRIT-LAND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And I am dying - life and strength are gone
Last Line: Who strikes the harp with silver strings so gently?——
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


FLOWER OF YOUTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary
Last Line: "and say: ""thank god, he has enough!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Heaven; World War I; Youth; Paradise; First World War


FOLDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale, withered hands that more than four- / score years
Last Line: So dwells the mother in the best of lands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise


FOR A' THAT, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is there a luckless wight on earth
Last Line: Will not come back for a' that.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Heaven; Home; Love; Paradise


FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me 'twas given to die; to thee 'tis given
Last Line: Mark! How impartial is the will of heaven!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise


FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend
Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


FORBEAR!, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little of your art forbear!
Last Line: Give less, give less of heaven to lose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Paradise


FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 2, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is what I cannot reach! / the apple on the tree
Last Line: There paradise is found!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


FORGIVEN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O wave and wind! O bee and chanting bird
Last Line: "most poignant of reproaches is—""forgiven!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Paradise


FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn
Last Line: X equals a—and so, he is destroyed.
Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FREEMASONRY, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As through the dreary wilderness
Last Line: Which will unite them there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death; Freemasons; Heaven; Immortality; Memory; Presence; Dead, The; Masonic Societies; Paradise


FULLNESS OF THE BIBLE, by H. J. BETTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a lamp whose steady light
Last Line: These healing leaves, this heavenly tree.
Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Jews; Religion; Paradise; Judaism; Theology


GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once let the angel blow!
Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise


GARFIELD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brave sufferer, pausing betwixt life and death
Last Line: "and die, if there be need, for mine and me?"
Subject(s): Heaven; Pain; Prayer; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis
Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


GLAD YOUTH, by CALISTA BARKER CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glad youth and strength!
Last Line: What must heaven be!
Subject(s): Heaven; Youth; Paradise


GLORY, by HELEN D. GREENWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glorious sunset
Last Line: Heaven -- is glorious!
Subject(s): Evening; God; Heaven; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise


GOD'S ANSWER TO A GRIEVING MOTHER, by HARRIET PARKER CAMDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear lonely mother - heart, - I heard your prayer
Last Line: I have been lonely too.
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Heaven; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise


GOD'S MEASURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God measures souls by their capacity
Last Line: And clasps all earth and heaven in its embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise


GOD'S WORLD AND MINE, by GRACE SUE NIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tell me heaven lies afar
Last Line: Love, my love, came!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise


GOOD-BYE, OLD YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good-bye, old year! For you and we must part
Last Line: Our prayers to him above.
Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Holidays; Love; New Year; Prayer; Separation; Isolation; Paradise


GRADATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heaven is not reached at a single bound
Last Line: And we mount to its summit round by round
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


GYPSY HEAVEN, by JOAN BUCKLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When all the seasons forming life have passed
Last Line: Where I may dance beneath a laughing sky.
Subject(s): Heaven; Seasons; Paradise


HARLIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fold the little waxen hands
Last Line: At the city's golden gates.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Paradise


HE WHO LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poignantly, the gothic arch
Last Line: Lover, merge thee in the whole!
Subject(s): Air; Heaven; Life; Soul; Sun; Paradise


HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: That clime is not like this dull clime of ours
Last Line: "they wander where the freshest pastures lie, / through all the nightless day of that unfading sky!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother is crouched at the edge
Last Line: Even when she was right, she was wrong
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


HEAVEN, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can the wise men know of heaven?
Last Line: Heaven is not yet being old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: That paradise the arab dreams
Last Line: No matter who feels sick and swears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O who will show me those delights on high?
Last Line: Echo. Ever.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by MABEL CLELAND LUDLUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I should die before you
Last Line: And this, my dear, will be heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Paradise


HEAVEN, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had been sitting at a feast of the souls
Last Line: Olympus and the swerga's holy bowers.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O heaven, how glorious thou art
Last Line: Thy holiness my heart?
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


HEAVEN, by NANCY WOODBURY PRIEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies
Last Line: Into those pastures vernal!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wafield, Nancy Amelia
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is heaven? 'tis a country
Last Line: Lord! Admit me, or I die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


HEAVEN, by CLARENCE AUGUSTUS VINCENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: No night is there
Last Line: Yes, christ is there!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a land of pure delight
Last Line: Should fright us from the shore.
Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology


HEAVEN, by MARY WINTER WERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heaven shines over the mountains
Last Line: And sweet is our daily bread.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


HEAVEN (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n is most faire; but fairer he
Last Line: That made that fairest canopie.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is not given for our good works here
Last Line: Yet it is given to the labourer.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN AND EARTH, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God, who with thunders and great voices kept
Last Line: As heaven has paused from song, let earth from moan!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN AND EARTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It may be true the stars are worlds
Last Line: Down in one little wayside pool.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars; Paradise


HEAVEN AND HELL, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said there were no thought of hell
Last Line: But ah, how few the god that loves!
Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Paradise


HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith
Last Line: "for evermore."
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology


HEAVEN FOR HELEN, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen says heaven, for her,
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN IN MY HAND, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked for heaven, high on a hill
Last Line: Had gold, with heaven in my hand.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me
Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs


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


HEAVENLY BLISS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trouble o'erwhelms us in the world
Last Line: And taste a ray of heavenly bliss
Subject(s): Death;duplicity;happiness;heaven;sin; "dead, The;deceit;joy;delight;paradise;


HEAVENWARD, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you be young again?
Last Line: Come life and light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HER EYES, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That they are brown, no man will dare to say
Last Line: Will mean the resurrection of her eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Paradise


HERE, by WARREN HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Disloyal scorner of his native land
Last Line: Reward and work are one; and heaven is here.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HERE AND NOW, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is heaven, is it not / just a friendly garden spot
Last Line: In the sunlit apple tree.
Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


HEROES, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little blue fox has been it break apart from / the riven floe
Last Line: Who know the way to die.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Heroism; Dead, The; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines


HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame
Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


HOLLYHOCKS, by WAYNE GARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The streets of heaven, I've been told
Last Line: I'm certain he'd sit down and stay.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HOLY INNOCENTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They scarcely waked before they slept
Last Line: Dear mothers, come: for heaven is best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


HOME, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick
Last Line: Or take me up to thee!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HOMESICK IN HEAVEN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go seek thine earth-born sisters, - thus the voice
Last Line: And sorrow's discords sweeten into song!
Subject(s): Heaven; Homesickness; Paradise


HOMEWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest
Last Line: "and testifies: ""god's will is alway best."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise


HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars
Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism


HOPEFULLY WAITING, by ANSON DAVIES FITZ RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not as you meant, o learned man, and good!
Last Line: To take my hand, and lead me safely home.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


HOSANNA, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more shall walls, no more shall walls confine
Last Line: His name, and when they do't be most my joys.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HOW I WALKED ALONE IN THE JUNGLES OF HEAVEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, once I walked in heaven, all alone
Last Line: That came to spoil my secret, silent lair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


HURRY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mortals! Why this fierce haste
Last Line: Enter its lord!
Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Religion; Sin; Paradise; Theology


HYMN (1), by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come down, o lord, and with us live!
Last Line: A foretaste of the bliss of heaven!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was joy in heaven!
Last Line: Then is there joy in heaven!
Subject(s): Happiness; Heaven; Joy; Delight; Paradise


I SMOKE MY PIPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't extend to every friend
Last Line: And so I smoke my pipe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fortune; Heaven; Leisure; Smoking; Paradise; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


I STILL LIVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou, whose love is changeless
Last Line: I thank thee that I live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Immortality; Love; Paradise


I WANT TO BE SIDE OF PAPA, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to be side of papa,
Last Line: And live more close to god.
Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Paradise


I WILL ASK, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Last Line: Had awaked from sleep.
Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Sleep; Paradise


I'M SCARED OF IT ALL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm scared of it all, god's truth, so I am!
Last Line: Oh, I know that it's safer up there!
Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Paradise


IF BUT A WORD, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If but a word of mine could give you joy
Last Line: And eyes half-veiled have told me you are mine.
Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


IF I, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I shall find some other world
Last Line: Or lash me forth from paradise.
Subject(s): Heaven; Prayer; Paradise


IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea
Last Line: If so tomorrow saves?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean


IF THAT HIGH WORLD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If that high world, which lies beyond
Last Line: And soul in soul grow deathless theirs!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN', by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal
Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints; Paradise; Theology


IF THIS IS PARADISE, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this is paradise: trees, beehives
Last Line: A bowl full of fire and pretend that it's magic?
Subject(s): Activity; Heaven; Progress; Exercise; Paradise


IMMORTAL SAILS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold
Last Line: While eyes meet eyes, and look their last farewell.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The; Paradise


IMMORTALITY, by M. EDWARD ROSENZWEIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft falls the snow, -like a silent veil
Last Line: And my footprints are lost, as soft falls the snow.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


IN ANDELYS: ON THE BANK OF THE SEINE: 5, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A heaven confused pours forth these feeble twilight glows. Fairer
Last Line: River slow that lulls great, golden nenuphars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love; Seine (river), France; Nightmares; Paradise


IN ANDELYS: TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: 10, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the
Last Line: Wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Paradise


IN CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You are dead
Last Line: And you are dead.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise


IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My des autels, whose true
Last Line: Your friend, ronsard.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise


IN EXILE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel with a flaming sword
Last Line: Whose form is life, whose shadow death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Exiles; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


IN EXTREMIS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her eyelids close - we think she sleeps
Last Line: Who reign with him in paradise.
Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Paradise


IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Measures of oil for others
Last Line: Death, will be mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


IN HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think it over, over
Last Line: The heavenly harbor at last!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


IN HEAVEN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence filled the courts of heaven
Last Line: "thy will, o lord, be done!"
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


IN LOVE'S ETERNITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body was part of the sun and the dew
Last Line: As my love; and together we wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Love; Reunions; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


IN MEMORIAM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone from the earth, forever and forever!
Last Line: And trace his name upon the hearts of men.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Memory; Dead, The; Paradise


IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rare and radiant life, whose mission here
Last Line: To the full sunshine of eternal love!
Subject(s): Death; Good; Heaven; Life; Praise; Dead, The; Paradise


IN MEMORY OF A. E. C., by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My world is peopled not alone
Last Line: Come friends who were and friends who are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


IN MY PERGOLA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake
Last Line: With every sun-kissed flower a smile!
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Lakes; Life; Paradise; Pools; Ponds


IN PARADISE, by ARLO BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pitying angel, pause, and say
Last Line: "though thou hast won to paradise!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


IN SAN LORENZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is thine hour come to wake, o slumbering night?
Last Line: But will not yet thine angel bid thee wake?
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Italy; Light; Sunrise; Paradise; Italians


IN THE NURSERY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do you go, bob, when you're fast asleep?
Last Line: Perhaps -- we'll see.'
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Night; Orchards; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


IN THE SHADOWS: MY EPITAPH, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Below lies one whose name was traced in sand
Last Line: In eden every flower is blown: amen.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


IRONY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave me my work to do, you brought and set it before me
Last Line: Why did you seal my lips and crush the song in my throat?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Irony; Laughter; Paradise


ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well
Last Line: Paradise, will he be there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone
Last Line: In his broad, loving will.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise


ISRAFIDDLESTRINGS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell
Last Line: Hearing my griddle-cry
Subject(s): Fiddles;hearts;heaven;musical Instruments; Paradise


IT IS ENOUGH, by CHRISTINE GRANT CURLESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not ask to know what yonder lies
Last Line: For me to know that joys are greater there.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


JANIE THOMAS, by JILL SPARGUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Janie thomas always shared
Last Line: And show us her harp and her wings.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Kindness; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise


JARGON-JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tawdery! - faddery! Feathers
Last Line: Heaven for nothin', and -- nobody there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Humanity; Paradise


JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My darling's silent pet
Last Line: She never envies him.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


JOINT HEIRS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a precious meaning
Last Line: By saints and angels heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Praise; Prayer; Paradise


KEEP IT DARK, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lest you deem these lines belated
Last Line: Just to alter things and keep it to ourselves.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree
Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise.
Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise


L'ENVOI, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep heart of love where never sound is heard
Last Line: Loves which on earth were but in shadow thrown.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Heaven; Love; Paradise


LA VITA NUOVA: 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, always cruel, pity's foe in chief
Last Line: May never hope to have her company.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Bereavement


LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away
Last Line: We too may pass away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


LARGER LIVES, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, they say, is undisturbed and perfect peace; and yet
Last Line: Enlarge our hearts to take thee in! O give us nobler lives!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


LIFE AFTER DEATH, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For them the sun shines ever in full might
Last Line: Burned for the glory of heaven continually.
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


LIFE'S GARDEN, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though time should turn earth's green to sere
Last Line: And that shall gladden you and me.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Heaven; Paradise


LIFT ME HIGHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift me higher! Lift me higher! / from this sphere of earthly dross
Last Line: "lifted higher"" -- than life's cares."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


LIGHTS IN THE TEMPLE, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stars are lit in heaven
Last Line: Mingling with his incense cloud!
Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Jews; Paradise; Holy Spirit; Judaism


LINES, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away is the land of rest
Last Line: You shall win the land of rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


LINES, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been cherish'd and forgiven
Last Line: Your praise to my great father.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Heaven; Clemency; Paradise


LINES ON GROWING OLD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not why, in my old age
Last Line: So I, one day, to god ascend!
Subject(s): Aging; Heaven; Life; Paradise


LINES SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. JOHN WHITELAW, DIED DECEMBER 3, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once dear companion of my early youth
Last Line: Peace to thy ashes, peace; dear friend, farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


LITTLE PATH, by MARTHA MARDEN BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little path, where, where are you running
Last Line: Or is it everywhere, little path?
Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Paradise; Paths; Trails


LONGINGS (BURNS MODEL LODGING-HOUSE), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is clatter on the pavement, there is hurry / in the street
Last Line: My father's homely cottage in kilcar.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Fire; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he
Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators


LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er
Last Line: I love you too, I love you too.
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise


LOST IN HEAVEN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night
Last Line: Let’s let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who extols a wilderness
Last Line: Great is its relief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees
Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary


LOVE'S LATE REMORSE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How will it be / when you at last in heaven we see
Last Line: Are we too late?
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare
Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise


LOVE'S QUICKENING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere love from barren chaos drew the skies
Last Line: I find the ordered pathway of my soul.
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Truth; Paradise


LOVE'S SUBMISSION, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though it please you light my heart with fire
Last Line: Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet.
Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Love; Sacrifices; Paradise


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 29, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me thou wert faithful and steady
Last Line: The kindness shown me at present!
Subject(s): Heaven; Kindness; Paradise


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is so fair, and the heavens so bright
Last Line: The corpse of my mistress dear caressing.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Heaven; World; Paradise


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 57, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt once more the vision of yore
Last Line: But the biting was rather too spiteful!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Nightmares; Paradise


MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace
Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary


MAHABHARATA: BOOK 17. THE GREAT JOURNEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given"
Last Line: "where they have gone, there will I surely go"
Subject(s): Death;heaven;hinduism;india;religion; "dead, The;paradise;theology;


MAHABHARATA: BOOK 18. THE ENTRY INTO HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given"
Last Line: "waiting to greet him, gladdening and glad"
Subject(s): Heaven;hinduism;india;religion; Paradise;theology


MALIGNED MORTALITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In upper space, in the nether abyss
Last Line: And that heaven does her right.
Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Paradise


MARIA IMMACULATA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How may I sing, unworthy I
Last Line: Who found thee without spot and full of grace!
Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary


MARTYRDOM, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Without, the lonely night is sweet with stars
Last Line: The peak still glimmers: thrill, my spirit, thrill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Spirituality; Paradise; Judaism


MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The house is changed where mary lived
Last Line: But dwells with us to-day.
Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How lovingly she looked on him
Last Line: Of cross against the sky?
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary


MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day
Last Line: Mary burke—mary burke!
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise


MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now
Last Line: Maureen—maureen!
Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


MAY MORNING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: One flashed upon her dreaming
Last Line: His promise to recall.
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; May (month); Paradise


MEETING ABOVE, by WILLIAM LEGGETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you bright stars which gem the night
Last Line: While ages roll their cycles round.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


MEMORIAL VERSES: 3. IN SALUTATION TO MY FATHER'S SPIRIT, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, farewell, o brave and tender sage
Last Line: Lost in the rapture of the cosmic soul.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


MEMORY, by HELEN HOOPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had one small glimpse
Last Line: There must be two to find it.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


MEMORY OF HEAVEN, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On earth we loved the waste of orchard, those branches
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sullen humour one day jove
Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise


MESSENGERS OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the sky are angels winging
Last Line: When revealed in glory there.
Subject(s): Angels; Bethlehem, Palestine; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Wings; Paradise


MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A holy innocent gone home
Last Line: On heavenly banks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise


MILKING SIAN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls
Last Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Advice; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Milk; Voices; Paradise; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MOAN, YE WILD WINDS!, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan, ye wild winds! Around the pane
Last Line: Or ere ye cease, if shed for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Wind; Paradise


MOSES, by N. N.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thrones that stood and realms that flourished
Last Line: As his birthright's sacred fountain?
Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Judaism


MOTHER, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You danced with love down ferny, spring-lit byways
Last Line: Such joy as makes of life a high emprise!
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Mothers; Paradise


MOTHER AND CHILD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What art thou thinking of,' said the mother
Last Line: "my mother, wouldst not thou?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Mothers; Childhood; Paradise


MUCH IN LITTLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just seven little notes
Last Line: All passion from hell to heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Music & Musicians; Passion; Paradise


MUSIC, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: God placed within the soul of rain
Last Line: On angel lips in paradise.
Subject(s): Heaven; Music & Musicians; Paradise


MY AIN COUNTRIE, by MARY LEE DEMAREST    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aftenwhiles
Last Line: That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


MY CAPTIVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought a blossom home with me
Last Line: Of heaven, and heaven her countenance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Heaven; Sympathy; Paradise; Empathy


MY FATHER'S CHILD, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About her head or floating feet
Last Line: Passed into paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart
Subject(s): Mothers; Heaven; Paradise


MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When shall I join the blessed company
Last Line: Whose slow, eternal ebb my bark shall bear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


MY HEAVEN, by CATHERINE CUSHMAN LEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your heaven, friend, has massive gates of / gold
Last Line: Within a heaven so loveless, friend, as thine.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise


MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may
Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise


MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night
Last Line: The heaven in your love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that
Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


MY MATE BILL, by G. H. GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That's his saddle across the tie-beam, an' them's his spurs up there
Last Line: As'll make them toney seraphs sit back on their thrones an' stare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


MY NEW FRIEND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shallow voice said, bitterly, 'new friend!'
Last Line: "but, ""ah! For years we've waited for this bliss!"
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Friendship; Heaven; Love; Paradise


MY PLEDGE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This I declare: as I trudge the road
Last Line: "a sweet contentment fills your sky."
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Prayer; Paradise


MY WHITE-CAPPED NURSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day by day, with unconscious grace
Last Line: And I inhale the fragrance there.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise


NATURE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The paradise of man has varied in its claims
Last Line: Still lingers far beyond the shadows of the grave.
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Nature; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence golden is, I say
Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining?
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise


NEARER HOME, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sweetly solemn thought
Last Line: On the rock of a living faith!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


NEW HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Paradise now has many a knight
Last Line: And the young knights' laughter pleaseth god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Heaven; World War I - Casualties; Paradise


NEW SPRING: 23, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the moon's fair image quaketh
Last Line: While my own heart 'tis that shaketh.
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Paradise


NIGHTFALL, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eve goes slowly
Last Line: Bold then beaten—now long lost, and here!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Shadows; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise


NIRVANA, by ELIZABETH N. BARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The all-embracing mother wraps herself about me
Last Line: O love, it is so lovely to be dead!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


NIRVANA, by JOAN BUCKLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could be like the clover
Last Line: With god's great broom . . .
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


NIRVANA, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the retreat, lee wasn't allowed
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes
Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest.
Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise


NOTES FOR CANTO 120, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have tried to write paradise
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Heaven; Paradise


NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I divested myself of despair
Last Line: To be mercy clothed in light
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


NOW AND AFTERWARD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, the sowing and the weeping
Last Line: "and the master's ""enter thou!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


OBERMAIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Obermais! Obermais! / charming bit of paradise
Last Line: Thou hast won my heart and soul!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Joy; Delight; Paradise


OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE OF EPICTETUS, by ELIZABETH TIPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor epictetus, born the slave of fate
Last Line: Of every spark of good we think or do.
Subject(s): Epicetus (60-140); Fate; Heaven; Life; Stoicism; Destiny; Paradise


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 23. DUST OF EDEN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some dust of eden eddies round us yet
Last Line: "and pitying leaves looked down and sighed, ""forget."
Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


ODE TO A 'STRAD' VIOLIN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Conceived in heaven, formed on earth
Last Line: Of its brief radiance pale!
Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Silence; Violins; Paradise


ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray
Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise


ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note
Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die?
Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs


ODE TO HEAVEN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Palace-roof of cloudless nights!
Last Line: To tremble, gleam, and disappear.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ODE: IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, deluded, albion, wilt thou lie
Last Line: And europe is redeemed, and william reigns!
Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Heaven; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Paradise


OF HEAVEN, by JEREMY TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: O beauteous god! Uncircumscribed treasure
Last Line: That we may praise thee to eternity. Allelujah!
Variant Title(s): Heaven
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


OLD BOOKS IN HEAVEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven would lose its heavenly looks
Last Line: Beneath my arm!
Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise


ON DEATH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the death to come?
Last Line: And make the parting less and less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mortality; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


ON HEAVEN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Permit mine eyes to see
Last Line: To voices, say, amen.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ON HEAVEN, SELECTION, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: And my dear one sat in the shadows; very softly she wept
Last Line: In front of a café in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reflected on the lake, I love
Last Line: As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hope; World; Paradise; Optimism


ON HOMEWARD WING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the soft south the constant bird comes back
Last Line: Nay! Give me faith like wings to soar to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Heaven; Homecoming; Paradise


ON LORD COBHAM'S GARDEN, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It puzzles much the sage's brains
Last Line: That paradise is stow.
Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD LADY, by L. K. GARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tended you for many years
Last Line: I for my part was glad.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Old Age; Dead, The; Paradise


ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home
Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement


ON THE LATE SHIFT, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven waggons to siding four, one to the buffer / end
Last Line: For a mourning dress at dawn.
Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heaven; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Train Wrecks


ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer
Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


ONLY WAITING, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only waiting till the shadows
Last Line: Tread its pathway to the skies.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


ORGAN SONGS: THE CHILDREN'S HEAVEN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The infant lies in blessed ease
Last Line: And bid them dream again.
Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Hope; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Paradise; Optimism


OSCAR COHEN, by HAMMOND B. GAYFER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, that death should lay thee low
Last Line: Shone the glory of the lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gayfer, H. B.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism


OUR ANGELS, by RUBY PRICE DEBOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Often when the crooning night winds
Last Line: Where the holy angels lead.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Paradise


OUR LOST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They never quite leave us, our friends who have passed
Last Line: But they live, like ourselves, in god's infinite care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Loss; Dead, The; Paradise


OUT OF DARKNESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is more in earth and heaven
Last Line: But we scarce have caught the gleam.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment
Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise


OVER THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the way of your dreams, my boy
Last Line: And the marvelous land of the ought-to-be.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


PARADISE, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot think of paradise a place
Last Line: Or help god make a blossom or a star.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PARADISE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O paradise, o paradise
Last Line: In god's most holy sight.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


PARADISE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paradise is (as from the learn'd I gather)
Last Line: A quire of blest soules circling in the father.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice
Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice.
Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PARADISE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the luminous deep skies
Last Line: She wrote only: rest in peace.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 1. PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasure space crammed
Last Line: That makes me long for more.
Subject(s): Heaven; Pleasure; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 2. TOO BRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One step beyond
Last Line: It lives, or dies?
Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 3. FULLNESS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fullness--the overmuch--
Last Line: With the overflow of sight.
Subject(s): Fullness; Heaven; Satiation; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 4. BOTH, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been the pear's
Last Line: Than they can bear.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 5. ALMOST A LONELINESS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One and by one
Last Line: Bows them down.
Subject(s): Heaven; Solitude; Paradise; Loneliness


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 6. YES, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burden and blessing--
Last Line: In this radiant wilderness.
Subject(s): Blessings; Heaven; Life; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To say `now' and yet again
Last Line: With its redolent folds.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses; Time; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 8. EQUIVALENTS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's `bride' and `bridge,'
Last Line: The crashing cataract spews.
Subject(s): Equality; Heaven; Language; Paradise; Words; Vocabulary


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 9. THIS DAZZLE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it only
Last Line: Radiant labyrinth?
Subject(s): Heaven; Introspection; Self; Paradise


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: BLUE PENINSULA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Above / dazzled battlements
Subject(s): Chaos; Heaven; Love; Paradise


PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4, LINES 639-654, by LESLIE JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's all the same to me what time it is
Last Line: When you are not around, just leaves me flat.
Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Milton, John (1608-1674); Separation; Isolation; Paradise


PARADISE: IN A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in a dream I saw the flowers
Last Line: And with my god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


PARADISI GLORIA, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a city, builded by no hand
Last Line: Through the bright, busy, and eternal day.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PARTING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As from our dream we died away
Last Line: How far away from paradise!
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


PARTING SONG, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The long day is closing
Last Line: Died for me -- is there.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PASSING AWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is written on the rose
Last Line: To pass away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


PATMOS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O patmos! Island of the visioned skies
Last Line: O spread for us those fields of paradise!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PAUDEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is it beyont that ye're watchin', paudeen
Last Line: "och! Afeared they'd come covetin' — grania magee!"
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sky; Dead, The; Paradise


PEACE, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul, there is a country
Last Line: Thy god, thy life, thy cure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): Sweet Peace
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise


PEACE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou gentle dove! Wing'd envoy to mankind
Last Line: And bring the leaf the tender olive yields!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise


PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel
Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise


PIETER MARINUS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, I have known all fruits of this thy world
Last Line: And I'll go home.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PLUS ULTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises
Last Line: Far beyond.
Subject(s): Day; Heaven; Night; Roundels; Soul; Paradise; Bedtime


POET'S DUST AND A STAR, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stript to ash in a white urn
Last Line: At the breast of a mother-sky.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Sky; Stars; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement


POOR MARGARET, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We always called her 'poor margaret'
Last Line: She is rich in her father's house at last.
Subject(s): Heaven; Spinsters; Paradise; Old Maids


PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not undertake to say
Last Line: "says ""pray, for prayer availeth much."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Hope; Life; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism


PRAYER FOR AN OLD MAN IN HEAVEN, by WILLIAM ARNETTE WOFFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear lord, when grandpa stiles knocks at your door
Last Line: Oh, give him one. It will please him lots, I know.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Heaven; Prayer; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise


PRAYER TO GO TO PARADISE WITH THE ASSES, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, when you send for me, let it be
Last Line: In the clear waters of eternal love.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Paradise


PRAYER TO GO TO PARADISE WITH THE ASSES, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I must make my way toward you, o lord
Last Line: Mirrors the brightness of eternal love.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Paradise


PRAYER WHILE DUSTING, by VIOLA DOWNEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Often, when she dusted, she would change
Last Line: That heaven is lovelier, because she's there.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PREPARATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou a cunning instrument of play
Last Line: And all the room with heavenly music float.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Heaven; Musical Instruments; Paradise


PRESCIENCE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A precious place is paradise and none may know its worth
Last Line: And vision earth and heaven, with a rustic bridge between.
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


PRIMO VERE, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold from sluggish winter's arm
Last Line: Has spring, too, felt the doom of years?
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Italian Renaissance; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise


PROVIDENCE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What will become of the lily
Last Line: "are numbered by his love!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


PUTTING OFF, THE ARMOR, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why weep ye for the falling
Last Line: In the city of our god.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


QUIA MULTUM AMAVIT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee
Last Line: 18 brumaire, an 78.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Paradise; Ocean


RAINBOW GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is a rainbow where all colors blend
Last Line: Will you behold the fabled pot of gold!
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Rainbows; Paradise


RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face
Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise


RECOMPENSE, by AMY FORBES KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I knew you never asked a worldly thing
Last Line: A recompense for all I failed to be.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Regret; Shame; Dead, The; Paradise


RELEASE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I paced the street at evening and my soul was fraught / with fears
Last Line: From the ghosts and the sins and shadows, for christ had walked with me.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


REMINISCENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the crumbling cliff we ate or meal
Last Line: "when destiny cried ""wait!"
Subject(s): April; Fate; Heaven; Love; Memory; Destiny; Paradise


RENUNCIATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wherefore thus, apart with drooping wings
Last Line: Thou sweetest, dearest angel!
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Tears; Paradise


REVISITANTS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who went where dante went
Last Line: No man cried aloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Heaven; Paradise


RIDERS OF THE STARS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty abreast down the golden street ten thousand
Last Line: And a viewless rider swept the sky on the trail of a shooting star?
Subject(s): Cowboys; Heaven; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Paradise; Southwest; Pacific States


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 8. PIOUS WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou dost quit this mortal abode
Last Line: Soft slippers, sweet music, and rest thou'lt find.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Night; Dead, The; Paradise; Bedtime


RONSARD'S GRAVE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye wells, ye founts that fall
Last Line: There sappho sings.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Prayer; Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585); Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O caves, and you, o springs
Last Line: Of whoso hears.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


RUINS REBUILT, by ADOLPH BOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: God said, 'let there be light!' and lo!
Last Line: Behold, humanity come forth to pray.
Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Heaven; Humanity; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


RUNNING TO PARADISE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I came over windy gap
Last Line: And there the king is but as the beggar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SABBATH HYMN, by AARON COHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Descend, descend, o sabbath princess
Last Line: And sabbath peace for evermore.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday


SAINT AGNES' EVE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep on the convent-roof the snows
Last Line: The bridegroom with his bride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Eve Of St. Agnes;saint Agnes
Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Catholics; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise


SAINT SEBASTIAN, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On slow and smoky fire thou burn'st and art consumed
Last Line: To kiss thy mouth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Sebastian, Saint (d. 288); Paradise


SAINTS AND ANGELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's oh in paradise that I fain would be
Last Line: And paradise hath room for you and me and all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


SAN GABRIEL ARCANGEL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Veil of the sierra madre! Sheen of light to tell whose / gleam
Last Line: Let the Æons antiphone it, till time sees the end of days!
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Messengers; Missions & Missionaries; Paradise


SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure
Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ!
Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise


SAY SOMETHING TO ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say something to me! I've waited so long
Last Line: Over the deeps of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Speech; Paradise; Oratory; Orators


SENT TO HEAVEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a message to send her
Last Line: And I am content to wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven, you say, will be a field in april
Last Line: Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief.
Subject(s): Dusk; Heaven; Paradise


SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise
Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She came to me
Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame!
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations


SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shekla's magic island lay
Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHIPS AND STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As soon as I began to name a star
Last Line: Across the heavens, whose names I will not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Stars; Paradise


SHOW US THY GLORY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Show us thy glory, lord
Last Line: Thy glory ever see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me
Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations


SIENA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside this northern summer's fold
Last Line: Up to god's side.
Subject(s): Heaven; Italy; Jesus Christ; Summer; Paradise; Italians


SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains
Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead.
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen


SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are all gone into the world of light!
Last Line: Where I shall need no glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 89, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a mounting skylark sings
Last Line: Only that heaven is heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Skylark And Nightingale
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SIT DOWN SAD SOUL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sit down, sad soul, and count
Last Line: Are thine forever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


SLEET IN HEAVEN, by MARGARET M. L. MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will not think heaven's a resting place
Last Line: How can I ever hope to enter in?
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the golden, glowing
Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep!
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise


SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In olden days men drew their sword
Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir!
Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean


SONG FOR A DEAD SPARROW, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Small, unmourned-for one
Last Line: On his own heart.
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Heaven; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


SONG OF A BLIND PILGRIM AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blind though I be I have not missed the road
Last Line: With words of loving-kindness urged me on.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I might have at mine own will
Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth
Last Line: That we desire no more?
Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain
Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That once she lent it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


SONGS: 9. WHETHER SLEEPING, WHETHER WAKING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: While we lovers lean and mock them under.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Paradise


SONNET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I sung how ocean woos the stars
Last Line: Can it be love? Ah, god! If I were sure!
Subject(s): Heaven; Moon; Praise; Soul; Paradise


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 23, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
Last Line: My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee!
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Heaven; Paradise


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 15, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell
Last Line: And now, sweet dreams, sweet lady! -- and good-bye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Love; Nightmares; Paradise


ST. CAMPION AND THE MAID OF WICKLOW, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A highland glen and one white cottage there
Last Line: "drink! You are thirsty, climbing all the day."
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Heaven; Soul; Nightmares; Paradise


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car
Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips


STARRY SKY, by CHARLES MARIE PHOTIUS MAURRAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask the heavens your future to impart
Last Line: And to look out upon you through thousands of eyes!
Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars; Paradise


STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base
Last Line: The spirits pass?
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean


STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas
Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean


SUBLIMITY, by IDA MYRTLE GRANNISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oft in my dreams I wander
Last Line: And talked with god up there.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SUMMONED BY THE KING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was at home in courts and knew the great
Last Line: The courtier journeys -- called to court again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Heaven; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets; Paradise


SUNDAY HYMN; IN IMITATION OF DR. WATTS, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the day the lord of life
Last Line: And death shall call me hence.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea
Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me?
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean


SUNSET (IMPROMPTU DURING A WALK WITH E. CLAY), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant 'tis at eventide
Last Line: Where there is no more night.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise


SUNSET ACROSS THE LAKE, by AUGUSTA M. BARNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sit and watch the sun go down
Last Line: And I catch a glimpse of it.
Subject(s): Evening; Heaven; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise; Pools; Ponds


SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south
Last Line: Her peaceful radiance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise


SUPPLIANT, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O wonder-haunted valley, sea-merged land
Last Line: Dawn on the hills, and paradise regained!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


SYMBOLISM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods
Last Line: And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longing; Love; Mortality; Dead, The; Paradise


TEARES (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our present teares here (not our present laughter)
Last Line: Are but the handsells of our joyes hereafter.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


TENNYSON, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As one each evening with a new surprise
Last Line: Autumnal splendors of the waning woods.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


TERESA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I too happy? Have I lost
Last Line: Bertrand and I and angelo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mothers; Religion; Paradise; Theology


THANK GOD!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thank god for life!
Last Line: God's sweetest gift; thy name in heaven is rest. / thank god for death!
Subject(s): Heaven;holidays;thanksgiving; Paradise


THAT LAND, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that I might live for ever
Last Line: The one way to win happiness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE ANGEL, by DOROTHY S. SILVERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamt I saw an angel in the sky
Last Line: And with a sigh, she floated far away.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism


THE ANGEL (1), by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the heavens of midnight an angel was sped
Last Line: The song wherewith heaven had thrilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Paradise


THE ANGEL OF GOD IN THE GARDEN OF DAME PHANTASY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dame fancy's garden hath a deep bocage
Last Line: The simples of her art will make them live alway
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Angels; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Love; Music & Musicians; Paradise


THE ANGEL OF MADEIRA, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each eve I lie a-musing on madeira's hills
Last Line: To awake o'er the myrtle grave time alone has lent.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


THE ANGEL OF TRUTH, by LEOPOLD STEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once th' omnipotent maker of world without end
Last Line: And his sovereign law all his creatures obey.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Justice; Paradise; Judaism


THE ANGEL'S SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let us sing the angel's song
Last Line: Glory to god! And peace on earth.'
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


THE ANGELS MARVEL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are stars up in the heavens
Last Line: Is his one creature—man.
Subject(s): Angels; Creation; Heaven; Mankind; Stars; Paradise; Human Race


THE ANGELS OF PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye to whom my prayer is given
Last Line: Such as came when jesu smiled.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Paradise


THE ANGELS' CALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the land of peace!
Last Line: Come, spirit, to thy god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE ANNUNCIATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God whispered and a silence fell; the world
Last Line: Upon its first sweet day of blossoming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Spring; Paradise


THE ANSWER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "who would not go' / with buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal"
Last Line: "seeking, by faith, beyond this clouded air, / that land so fair!"
Subject(s): Death;heaven; "dead, The;paradise;


THE ANZACS, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No straws weighed they of the right or wrong
Last Line: And shrines in her heart the dead.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heaven; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The; Paradise


THE ASS OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If I was like st. Francis
Last Line: The ass of christ by name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Paradise


THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust
Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible
Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence


THE BALLAD OF THE ANGEL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it knocking in the night
Last Line: "of heaven when you die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Dead, The; Paradise


THE BENEDICTION, by HARRY WEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a memory that sweetens
Last Line: And heaven's own surcease.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Peace; Paradise; Judaism


THE BIRD OF PARADISE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art perfected splendor without the / peacock's feet
Last Line: With the cunning of a blow-pipe may bring thy beauty down.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Heaven; Paradise


THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven
Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise


THE BLESSED DAMOZEL, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blessed damozel leaned out / from the gold bar of heaven
Last Line: And wept. (I heard her tears.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Paradise


THE BLIND MAN AWAKES IN HEAVEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So much I had forgotten in the dark!
Last Line: And not a curve is changed in mother's face.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God had called us, and we came
Last Line: We will set it out to grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Iris (flower); Paradise


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man in winter is the source of spring
Last Line: The dead man in winter is in heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Paradise


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE COMETH FORTH INTO THE DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I am here, I have traversed the tomb, I behold thee"
Last Line: "in the beautiful world by the bright lake of horus, / riseth the day"
Subject(s): Death;fathers & Sons;heaven; "dead, The;paradise;


THE BREATH OF SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now did wallflower breathe
Last Line: His cold shade beneath.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Rebirth; Dead, The; Paradise


THE BUILDER, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoothing a cypress beam
Last Line: "heaven,"" he said."
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Carpenters; Christmas; Heaven; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE BURIAL OF WEBSTER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low and solemn be the requiem above the nation's / dead
Last Line: And future generations shall honor webster's name!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


THE CALL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: And god said 'come'; and all
Last Line: Turning all my gloom to light.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Religion; Soul; Paradise; Theology


THE CALL OF DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last of myself-I thought how hard to die
Last Line: Once and no more—ah! Make no cry!
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


THE CATBIRD, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On mountain-tops of joy he sings, quite clear
Last Line: "a sneering—""sin?—aw—you—yes—you—too—sin!"
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE CELESTIAL COUNTRY, by BERNARD OF CLUNY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is very evil
Last Line: Thou shalt be, and thou art!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bernard Of Morlaix; Morlaix, Bernard De; Bernard Of Morlay
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE CHIEF AMONG TEN THOUSAND (SONG OF SOLOMON), by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold thou art all fair, my love
Last Line: And eat his fruits of love.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Heaven; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Paradise; Judaism


THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven
Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long."
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE CHILD-BRIDE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tread lightly in the lane-way
Last Line: The child-bride's sleep is long * * * —
Subject(s): Children; Death; Heaven; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Paradise


THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The children she had missed
Last Line: Was a dream, but a dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Heaven; Mothers; Women; Childhood; Paradise


THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night it was jewelled
Last Line: A rosy morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW YEAR PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending
Last Line: This is a christian's prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Holidays; Jesus Christ; New Year; Prayer; Soul; Paradise


THE CHRISTMAS TREE OF THE ANGELS, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen god's christmas tree in the sky
Last Line: To this tree of god in paradise?
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Magic; Paradise


THE CHURCH STEPS, by GEORGE T. FOSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two centuries of steps and then
Last Line: And home of light.
Subject(s): Churches; Heaven; Cathedrals; Paradise


THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls
Last Line: Would pass her by.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


THE CLERK, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two and two are four, four and three are seven
Last Line: Through the long celestial day.
Subject(s): Heaven; Office Employees; Paradise; Clerks


THE CLOSING OF PARADISE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods who toss their bounties down / to willing laps
Last Line: Compared with her who died of late?
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Memory; Paradise


THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day
Last Line: Who went to heaven—starved.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DEVONSHIRE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Wiessen and nature held a long contest
Last Line: And cavendish's name and cecil's honour die.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Nature; Paradise


THE COURSE OF TIME: THE ONCE-OVER, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, all was calm in heaven. Nor yet appeared
Last Line: Now glanced a look on man, and then retired.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Sky; Paradise


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 DARKY'S HEAVEN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dis worl' am full ob trouble
Last Line: It will sho-li take de cake.
Subject(s): African Americans; Heaven; Negroes; American Blacks; Paradise


THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There she lay so still and pale
Last Line: Death hath found her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise


THE DEATH OF SIR LAUNCELOT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At canterbury seven years a monk
Last Line: Like evening's purple with the setting sun.
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Funerals; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE DERELICT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the rim of waters vast
Last Line: And break the fatal spell.
Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Heaven; Paradise


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth
Last Line: And reach my father's house on high!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Houses, Deserted; Mourning; Paradise; Bereavement


THE DEW DROP, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In one clear drop of morning dew
Last Line: What power the simplest life would wield!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE DIFFERENCE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let two go forth into the garden of life
Last Line: They find themselves, and that is all they find.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


THE DREAM MAID (SUGGESTED BY GENE STRATTON PORTER'S 'THE HARVESTER'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: South wind, south wind
Last Line: The path to paradise.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise


THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame! / quit, o quit this mortal frame!
Last Line: O death! Where is thy sting?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian
Variant Title(s): Ode: The Dying Christian To His Soul
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology


THE DYING OF PERE PIERRE, by JOHN MCCRAE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, grieve not that ye can no honour give
Last Line: Lay, tombed in splendour, in the house of god.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE DYING SISTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling boy
Last Line: Waiting for you!
Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Praise; Separation; Isolation; Paradise


THE EIGHT CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by ISIDORE MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With fervor and joy we give thanks to the lord
Last Line: To serve the one god and to walk in his light.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Heaven; Heroism; Jews; Light; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE END OF LIFE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven; Paradise


THE ETERNAL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth is his garment and also heaven
Last Line: Answer with mercy and law and love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Creation; Future Life; Heaven; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE FAITH OF A CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've learned the tale of the crooning waves
Last Line: Of rosses by the sea.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Faith; Heaven; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed; Paradise


THE FAITHFUL SERVANT, by S. P. KOON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The master sat with smiling face
Last Line: There waits for you a home of love.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Paradise


THE FESTIVAL OF BEATRICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante, sole standing on the heavenward height
Last Line: From shore to mountain and from alp to sea.
Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Heaven; Paradise


THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven
Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial!
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE FLIGHT OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the rise and set of the starry host
Last Line: And the glory that is to be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


THE FLITTIN', by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sure, the little house is tumblin' now
Last Line: As I shuts th' oul' brown door!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Physicians; Sickness; Dead, The; Paradise; Doctors; Illness


THE FLOWER OF OLD JAPAN: EPILOGUE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Carol, every violet has
Last Line: Back to heaven, back to home.
Subject(s): Heaven; Transience; Paradise; Impermanence


THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead!
Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a funny little fellow
Last Line: "little angel he will make!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Laughter; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps
Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss?
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE GARDEN, by LOIS STANTON PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A haven of rest to soul and to eye
Last Line: And each precious blossom breathes the word love.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


THE GARDEN IN THE SKIES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see a garden in the skies
Last Line: From a flower bed in the skies!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


THE GATE OF FAME, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Open the portal, let me in
Last Line: The key to the gate of fame.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement


THE GATES OF HEAVEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall we look for bliss?
Last Line: Its gates.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR THE SEXES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutual forgiveness of each vice
Last Line: The lost travellers dream under the hill
Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Mythology; Paradise


THE GILMAN HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The meeting-house is but a dream
Last Line: The door that led to heaven.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


THE GOLD PIECE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lord will not miss of all his store
Last Line: Because I have stolen from my lord the ransom he would not give.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Gold; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE GOLDEN BIRD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If joy, the golden bird, would fly
Last Line: Right and room in joyous heaven!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE GOLDEN GATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim shadows gather thickly round
Last Line: And then with beating heart await the opening of the golden gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE GOLDEN PRISON, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not for me, when I am gone
Last Line: Safe, and yet saved by fire
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE GRACE OF GOD, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord's cross, so runs the old norse tale
Last Line: From lips an hungered for its succulence?
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Heaven; Religion; Eve; Paradise; Theology


THE GREATEST WONDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven
Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise


THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea
Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed."
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise


THE HEAVEN-SIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky was soft with tender blue
Last Line: Seem isles of peace in upper air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Peace; Paradise


THE HEAVENLY LIGHT; SHEVUOTH, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When israel in the wilderness
Last Line: May reach with joy the heavenly land.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Israel; Jews; Paradise; Judaism


THE HEAVENLY WAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavenly way! The narrow path that leads
Last Line: And peace celestial with the morning star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Heaven; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Paradise


THE HEROES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: By many a dream of god and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led
Last Line: A light around the shadowy heads, a shadow round the head of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE HILLS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not why I love the cloud-lined hills
Last Line: Holding its last sweet beam from earth to catch the first from heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE HOME OF LOVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou mov'st in visions, love! Around thy way
Last Line: Love! Thy sole home is heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Paradise


THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain
Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear.
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wing and ruby throat
Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go.
Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


THE HUNNEWELL GARDENS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The light of the azaleas has paled
Last Line: And death, god's angel, comes and shuts the scene.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


THE HYMN OF KING OLAF THE SAINT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "swend, king of all"
Last Line: On saints who with god are staying
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;heaven;saints; Paradise


THE IMPRISONED SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh weary, sorrowful soul of man
Last Line: And time and fate shall bind no more.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise


THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come
Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Quran
Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE INQUIRY, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, ye winged winds, / that round my pathway roar
Last Line: "yes, in heaven!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE INVENTION OF HEAVEN, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind becomes a field of snow
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE KING AND THE PEASANT, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once, at the self-same point of time
Last Line: "once only in a hundred years!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Peasantry; Sin; Paradise


THE KING AT THE DOOR, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift up the everlasting gates!
Last Line: Make glorious this thy dwelling place!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the ominous month of october
Last Line: "receive, and believe, as a child."
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mythology; Dead, The; Paradise


THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through storm and sun the age draws on
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; World; Paradise


THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well!
Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy


THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "far in the sea, and west of spain / there lieth a land, I-hight cockaigne"
Last Line: "pray we god it so may be! / amen, amen, by charity!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE LAST LOOK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her face was like an opening rose
Last Line: No need, if I forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise


THE LAST SOUL, by CATULLE MENDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heaven was void of gods and, altarless
Last Line: And, as departing incense, soared to god.
Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Soul; Youth; Paradise


THE LAST WORSHIPPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Broken and shattered
Last Line: The dying gods cannot wholly die.
Subject(s): Candles; Death; Heaven; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The; Paradise


THE LIBRARY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My days among the dead are past
Last Line: That will not perish in the dust.
Variant Title(s): Among His Books;the Scholar In His Library;his Books;the Scholar;stanzas Written In His Library
Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise


THE LITTLE CALVES OF LES HAIZETTES, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in my little hamlet, three most marvelos animals there be, three
Last Line: Follow me the sweet, dark eyes of the little calves of les haizettes.
Subject(s): Calves; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


THE LITTLE ONES GREATNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let ye brave proud, & mighty men
Last Line: Soft king of lambs for ever reigne.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Regalia; Paradise; Royal Perogatives


THE LOST CHORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Seated one day at the organ
Last Line: I shall hear that grand amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Music & Musicians; Organs (musical Instruments); Paradise


THE LOST LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Simple and sweet as a child
Last Line: Simple and sweet as a child.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE LOST PATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone they walked - their fingers knit
Last Line: Was leading safely on to paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Spring; Paradise; Paths; Trails


THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain
Last Line: Breathed by the deity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise


THE MANY MANSIONS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My father's house,-where doth it stand?
Last Line: The universe is thine.
Subject(s): Heaven; Mansions; Worship; Paradise


THE MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See, the sun hath risen
Last Line: Satisfied with hopeful rest, and replete with god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Heaven; Martyrs; Religion; Sin; Tears; Paradise; Theology


THE MARTYR OF BRUSSELS, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rest you, sweet martyr, nobly have you lain
Last Line: "and hear from lips divine, ""abide with me."
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Martyrs; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise


THE MEANING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seemed to me the night she died
Last Line: Her spirit passed to paradise.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


THE MESSED DAMOZEL AT THE CUBIST EXHIBITION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The messed damozel leaned out
Last Line: She simply wasn't there!
Subject(s): Heaven; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Paradise


THE MESSENGER, by O. B. MERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rabbi ben josef, old and blind
Last Line: "should prove a messenger from me."
Subject(s): Angels; Clergy; Heaven; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paradise; Judaism


THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms
Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE NAVVY, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remote from mansion and from mart
Last Line: And god be good to you — and me.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago
Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven
Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise


THE ORGANIST, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft thro' the chancel casement
Last Line: Before the great white throne.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Paradise


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WAY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I promised about this time to call at a home
Last Line: Side turnings here going steeply down to the pit.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE OTHER WORLD, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It lies around us like a cloud
Last Line: Our suffering life the dream.
Variant Title(s): In The Other World
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE OUTGOING OF SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows have taken the place of the sun
Last Line: The last strain of sabbath's zemiroth is sung.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Shadows; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday


THE PASSING OF THE BIRDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the heart of an autumnal day
Last Line: Most fraught with sense of fetterless grace and glee.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Heaven; Memory; Seasons; Fall; Paradise


THE PATHWAY TO PARADISE, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How shall I find it, and which way lies
Last Line: "oh, love is the pathway to paradise."
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE PHANTOM COASTERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coasters of the past are back
Last Line: And troy town's wreck behind them lies.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prehistoric Peoples; Skeletons; Dead, The; Paradise


THE PICK, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of the pluvial season it gallantly stayed
Last Line: To the pick that was ever trusted, tried on the dead-line and true.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Missions & Missionaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 62, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straining its eyes it scans the horizon
Last Line: A tailorbird on the waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heaven; Paradise


THE POET TO THE CLOUD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft white cloud in the sky
Last Line: Such manner of life as thine.
Subject(s): Clouds; God; Heaven; Life; Paradise


THE PRAYER OF SOLOMON AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gorgeous structure! Rich with fretted gold
Last Line: And when thou hearest, forgive, and grant us rest.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Prayer; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Paradise; Judaism


THE PROMISE IN DISTURBANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How low when angels fall their black descent
Last Line: The rebel discords up the sacred mount.
Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Heaven; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise


THE RECALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Return, they cry, ere yet your day
Last Line: Return.
Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise


THE REFORMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man once stood before a frowning wall
Last Line: And deified his name to after-times.
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Heaven; Lies; Love; Paradise


THE RESIGNATION, by THOMAS CHATTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! Whose thunder shakes the sky
Last Line: Which god, my east, my sun, reveals.
Variant Title(s): On Resignation;faith
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise


THE RESTING PLACE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly the paschal moonlight now is sleeping
Last Line: Blessed for evermore, and -- satisfied!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE RIGHT MARY, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: All the little mary maids
Last Line: She named it child o' god.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise


THE ROAD TO CURRASHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a lonesome, rugged road
Last Line: Like what led to currasheen!
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness


THE ROOM OVERHEAD; AN EASTER THOUGHT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a dark and narrow stairway to the room overhead
Last Line: When I've mounted the narrow stair.
Subject(s): Easter; Heaven; Holidays; The Resurrection; Paradise


THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come with old khayyam, and leave the wise / to talk
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise


THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again
Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE SANCTUARY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In israel was many a refuge city
Last Line: His own calm breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Israel (state); Sanctuaries; Paradise


THE SANCTUARY: 6. LOVE TRANSCENDENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When time shall cease and the world be ended
Last Line: O my saint with the sinless eyes!
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Soul; Transcendentalism; Paradise


THE SEA-PLANE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tiny speck in the evening sky
Last Line: Takes from the mother's arms their child.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SEEING EYE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an eye that never sleeps
Last Line: That love is throned beyond the sky.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Love; Paradise; Judaism


THE SELF-EXILED, by WALTER CHALMERS SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a soul to the gate of heaven
Last Line: And the angels were not silent.
Subject(s): Heaven; Service; Paradise


THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young
Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War


THE SIGN, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faithful hearts had long been watching
Last Line: And the sign—a little child!
Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Paradise


THE SINGER, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sang with the voice of an angel
Last Line: "I sing for him alone."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SISTER OF MERCY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has shone, as glows dawn's fairest blush
Last Line: Fond memory will cherish.
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SKY-LINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man builds his barriers, obscures the light
Last Line: The sky-line changes, -- there is still the sky.
Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Sky; Paradise


THE SONG OF THE SPHERES (IS THE SONG OF GOD), by N. B. NORMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Music has colors
Last Line: Song of the spheres.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Paradise


THE SONS OF HEAVEN, by GRANT HYDE CODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep in the shoreward crags of earth is cleft
Last Line: Sightless before the ruddy sons of heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paintings & Painters; Shadows; Paradise


THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden
Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise


THE SOUL'S TRAVELLING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell amid the city ever
Last Line: Forgets the rush and rapture of his wings.
Subject(s): Heaven; God; Paradise


THE SOWER, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sow in the morn thy seed
Last Line: "and heaven cry -- ""harvest home."
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Variant Title(s): The Field Of The World
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE SPIRIT LAND, by JONES VERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand
Last Line: That ne'er returns us to the fields of light
Variant Title(s): The Present Heaven
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE SPIRIT TO THE SPOILERS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spoilers of men, beware the dawning hour
Last Line: Of earth; he swears your time shall be no more.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us!
Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed
Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


THE STILLBORN IN HEAVEN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beautiful garden of paradise, where / the souls of the blessed go
Last Line: "with pangs and cries I was born last night, and died in my mother's bed!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Prayer; Paradise


THE STRICKEN HART, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stricken hart had fled the brake
Last Line: And love, some say, has conquered heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise


THE SUPREME GIFT, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A singer with eyes on the star lighted heavens
Last Line: And giving herself, she gave all.
Subject(s): Angels; Children - Lost; Heaven; Love; Paradise


THE SUPREME WISH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God give you joy, I said,-and joy you had
Last Line: O sweet, god give you rest!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Rest; Wishes; Dead, The; Paradise


THE TEAR OF HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heaven's blue eye tender a tear-drop wept
Last Line: "my pearl, my pearl fore'er remain'"
Subject(s): Grief;heaven; Sorrow;sadness;paradise


THE TEARS OF HEAVEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven weeps above the earth all night
Last Line: Smiles on the earth's worn brow to win her if she may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE TEMPTATION OF HASSAN BEN KHALED, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hassan ben khaled, singing in the streets
Last Line: And allah grant he go no more astray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Temptation; Dead, The; Paradise


THE THINNING RANKS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day grows lonelier; the air
Last Line: But heaven shall be our trysting-place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Love; Paradise


THE TOMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the parting place; this narrow house
Last Line: A pilgrim at heaven's gate.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE TOWER OF SILENCE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent! Tread airily!
Last Line: Walk hence reverently!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise


THE TRUE HEAVEN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bliss for which our spirits pine
Last Line: A boundless circle round us cast!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE TRUTH?, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, my enemies, my friends
Last Line: Back to our old play!
Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; God; Heaven; Love; Truth; Paradise


THE TWIN STARS, by JOEL BLAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up above me star and star
Last Line: Who'll the blessing o'er them say?
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday


THE TWIN STARS, by JOEL BLAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two stars are shining in the skies
Last Line: Who will pronounce the blessing?
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday


THE VEIL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought a veil was lifted from mine eyes
Last Line: And straight my vision vanished utterly.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer; Paradise


THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden
Last Line: There to rest forevermore.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight
Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is passing along to-day
Last Line: In the time of love's dear visiting.
Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Virgin Mary


THE VOICES, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O waves, that break at my feet
Last Line: And flings the portal wide for peace.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; War; Dead, The; Paradise


THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are leaning through the roses
Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement


THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass
Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds.
Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise


THE WANDERING SUNBEAM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It wandered far, that sunbeam bright
Last Line: Is heaven's eternal shadeless light
Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Paradise


THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are we
Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean


THE WAY O' THE WARL', by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's the way o' the warl' when yer troubles are sair
Last Line: Lippen aye maist tae heaven, tae yersel', an' yer mither.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Paradise


THE WAY TO HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one day the sultan, grand and grim"
Last Line: I cannot tell the way I came
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THE WAYSIDE CROSS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wayside cross at set of day
Last Line: For such sweet thoughts in the twilight grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THE WHITE ISLAND, OR PLACE OF THE BLEST, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this world (the isle of dreames)
Last Line: Have ending.
Subject(s): Heaven; Immortality; Paradise


THE WIND AT FIDENAE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh from the sabines
Last Line: Bloweth the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Heaven; Rome, Italy; Wind; Paradise


THE WISE YOUNG LAWYER SPEAKS, by MILLICENT H. VELHAGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I answered him discreetly - that I know
Last Line: Could he have meant I should not enter in?
Subject(s): Heaven; Law & Lawyers; Paradise


THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again
Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle --
Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence


THERE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When trakl crossed over, the angels
Last Line: Carved on a stone cheek.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever
Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


THERE IS A PATHWAY, by ROBERT WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a pathway glorious / to the angels' happy home
Last Line: When the jewell'd crown appears.
Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can angel spirits need repose
Last Line: Into the palace of my god
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


THEY SAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the sky is azure fair
Last Line: Let the spring go -- give me my love!
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Love; Sky; Spring; Paradise


THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN, by ROBERT NICOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High thoughts! / they come and go
Last Line: So pure and deep!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary
Last Line: Down on his golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing?
Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea!
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise


THROUGH DARKNESS TO LIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far in the vaults of the deep-blue heaven
Last Line: "angels were chanting ""the death of night."
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise


THROUGH THE HOURS OF YESTERNIGHT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Paradise


TITIAN'S ASSUMPTION, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burst is the iron gate!
Last Line: We, of the wondrous art that gives it to our eyes!
Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Death; Heaven; Miracles; Titian (1490-1576); Dead, The; Paradise; Vecelli, Tiziano; Vecellio, Tiziano


TO, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Asleep within the deadest hour of night
Last Line: Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise


TO A CHILD IN HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How dost thou fare in the high, silent skies?
Last Line: Since thou art there and I to earth exiled?
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


TO A FAIR MAIDEN WHO BLADE ME SHUN WINE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And must I wholly banish hence
Last Line: To grace the praise of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Muses; World; Paradise


TO A LITTLE CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear eyes of heaven's chosen hue
Last Line: I feel god's wondrous tenderness.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise


TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it
Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From public noise and factious strife
Last Line: Love is a jest, and vows are wind.
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth; Paradise


TO DR SHERLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive the muse, who, in unhallowed strains
Last Line: And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Life; Muses; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise


TO HEAVEN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open thy gates
Last Line: Come in, or force the gate.
Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


TO HEAVEN, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good and great god! Can I not think of thee
Last Line: For weariness of life, not love of thee.
Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology


TO HELEN (OBIIT DECEMBER 3, 1903), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lilies for her virgin breast
Last Line: Opening now in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise


TO L, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hope, child, is a reed
Last Line: Laves a soul.
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism


TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass
Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise


TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her
Last Line: Than the morning skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise


TO MARGARET, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: These hands, worn thin by many years of toil
Last Line: Where you with him will hear my prayer.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Empathy


TO MARK ANTHONY IN HEAVEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This quiet morning light
Last Line: Listening in heaven.
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Heaven; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Paradise


TO MOTHER - IN HEAVEN, by BENNETT WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now there shall be a new song and a new star
Last Line: Because in heaven she is my advocate.
Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Paradise


TO MY DEAR MOTHER IN SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hang not thy harp upon the willow
Last Line: There's calm and peace beyond the grave.
Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Sickness; Paradise; Illness


TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave
Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


TO MY MOTHER, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've kept a haughty heart thro' grief and mirth
Last Line: That gentle heart, loving me still so blindly.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise


TO PATIENCE, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O may my soul direct her steps aright
Last Line: "by patient steadiness to climb to heaven."
Subject(s): Heaven; Patience; Paradise


TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy
Last Line: Farewell!—dear boy, farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise


TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF THOMAS GUNTON: MR. GUNTON SHOWN AROUND HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle ithuriel led him round the skies
Last Line: And took eternal leave of what he built before.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Sky; Paradise


TO THE END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are lilies for her sisters
Last Line: And leaning from the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


TO THE HONOURED EUGENIA, COMMANDING ME TO WRITE TO HER, by JOAN PHILIPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair excellence! Such strange commands you lay
Last Line: Quarrel with them that give you not your due.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia
Subject(s): Heaven; Pride; Soul; Paradise; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TO THE LADY DURSLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here reading how fond adam was betrayed
Last Line: Nor had frail adam fallen, nor milton wrote.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Heaven; Milton, John (1608-1674); Paradise


TO THE PROTECTOR, ANGEL, OF INTELLECTUAL DOUBT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods many and lords many be
Last Line: But who save you can succour faith?
Subject(s): Angels; Faith; God; Heaven; Saints; Belief; Creed; Paradise


TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd"
Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise


TO W. B. YEATS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wreathless of laurel plucked by delian springs
Last Line: Where thy own rose reigns queen of all the air.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Temples; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Paradise; Mosques


TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A windy shell singing upon the shore
Last Line: Shall he find faith upon the earth? --
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Paradise


TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart
Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind.
Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise


TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide
Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement


TO WILLIAM LOGAN, ON THE DEATH OF HIS AGED MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn not, my christian friend: - thy late removed
Last Line: And blest re-union in the home above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: AFTER LONG AGES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired child, on thy way to paradise
Last Line: "we also pass into peace and joy eternal."
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Paradise


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth, scene of what toil and anguish
Last Line: Scarce sustain!
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. REST AT LAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Love - having journeyed through all of life
Last Line: And I in them attain at last to rest.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise


TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master
Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


TRAGEDIES: 6, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At top of the thinnest steeple-spire
Last Line: And whispers and waves in the drafty air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Lips; Night; Paradise; Bedtime


TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek
Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime


TRANSCENDENCY, by NORMAN CABOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A more imposing chaos than our own
Last Line: Of some more hugely blundering ass than I!
Subject(s): Heaven; Meditation; Paradise


TRANSFIGURED, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, heaven has come down to meet us
Last Line: And sweet with the air of heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


TRANSFIGURED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watch a ball by rampant feet
Last Line: Shall chime eternal praise.
Subject(s): Evil; Heaven; Praise; Time; Paradise


TRANSLATION OF THE PATRIARCH, by LUCY A. RANDALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No tombstone saw they there
Last Line: Reveals how enoch went home to him.
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism


TRINITY CHIMES: ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the indian summer
Last Line: Who had no time for prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Heaven; Prayer; Trinity, The; Cathedrals; Paradise


TULIPS, by PHRONSIE IRENE MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flashes of color, living color
Last Line: But drop beside the yellow bowl -- and die.
Subject(s): Colors; Heaven; Tulips; Paradise


TWILIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O mystic hour! When day and night
Last Line: Proclaiming their immortal dower!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


TWO WORLDS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain
Last Line: Evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


TWO WORLDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God's world is bathed in beauty
Last Line: Back to thy holy land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; God; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise


UNCOMFORTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lelloine! Lelloine! Don't you
Last Line: And tell him you are lonely without your mother there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


UNDER THE CLOUD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the cloud we pass
Last Line: And our sorrow is glorified.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement


UNFORTUNATE, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fold her hands upon her breast
Last Line: Her life, her soul will keep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


UNTOLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A face may be woeful-white to cover a heart that's / aching
Last Line: Alas! For the weary feet that may not rest to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


UP, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reach me / I reach you
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise


UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Uphill
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips


URANIA, by ROBERT ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whence this impatience fluttering in my breast!
Last Line: This cordial take.' I drank. Urania flew.
Subject(s): Arabia; Heaven; Mortality; Transience; Wings; Paradise; Impermanence


VISIONS: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In blissful dream, in silent night
Last Line: "thou'rt ours for all eternity!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Hope; Night; Nightmares; Paradise; Optimism; Bedtime


VISTAS OF LABOR: 1. THE STEAMSHIP STOKER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweat-drenched, and blinded by the heat, he reels
Last Line: The seeming dead grow light and labor-strong!
Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Soul; Paradise; Work; Workers


VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love
Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise


VOCATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For this, for this was I foreseen
Last Line: Made me the children's heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Heaven; Childhood; Paradise


VOICES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are voices that come from the beyond
Last Line: Of god's eternity.
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Mouths; Voices; Paradise


WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside
Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . .
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise


WALTER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The changing moon will circle through the skies
Last Line: And I am left alone.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness


WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, weep for him, the man of god
Last Line: Weep, children of israel, weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise; Judaism; Bereavement


WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When thou to my true love com'st
Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow"
Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise;


WHAT BOBBIE DREAMED, by DOROTHY HAIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Please let me in, st. Peter
Last Line: For letting me come through.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rabbi jehosha used to say
Last Line: Said all the host of heaven could say.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism


WHEN I AM DEAD, by PAUL ELDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll have no compromise
Last Line: Their paradise. ...
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


WHEN I GO HOME, by MILTON LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No tears, no sorrowing farewells
Last Line: When I go home!
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


WHEN IT RAINS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When it rains, and with the rain
Last Line: With the golden bow of promise as it drips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Tears; Paradise


WHEN THE ANGELS COME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am exiled from home and from love
Last Line: God sends the angels to welcome me in!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


WHERE IS HEAVEN?, by EVERETT GUY TALBOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me not dream of some fair paradise
Last Line: But here on earth, when men are ruled by love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Talbott, E. Guy
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


WHITE STAR OF TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each love-thought in thy mind doth rise
Last Line: In thee, white star of time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Heaven; Longing; Spiritual Life; Paradise


WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain
Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WILLIAM UPSON, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all good people, far and near,
Last Line: Twenty-third of march, as I was told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


WINTER HEAVENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive
Last Line: And this is the soul's haven to have felt.
Subject(s): Heaven; Night; Winter; Paradise; Bedtime


WITH DAFFODILS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I send you daffodils, my dear
Last Line: Are you the only firmament.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Eden; God; Heaven; Paradise


WITH THE AIR-FLEETS, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: We swing to the ultimate offing
Last Line: And homeward draw back?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Paradise


WITH THE CURRENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rarest mood of all the year!
Last Line: As the bubbles go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Rivers; Roses; Sky; Paradise


WITHOUT A HEAVEN, by MARJORIE LEICHNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mist has veiled my skyward-reaching oaks
Last Line: For in it, only I remain unchanging.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


YOUR EYES, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever I see your eyes
Last Line: At close of day.
Subject(s): Heaven; Prayer; Paradise