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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARADISE Matches Found: 786 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE NEW JERUSALEM; OR, THE SOUL'S BREATHING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 childor a trampor 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 homein 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 arejust 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 thenfarewell! 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 aand 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 burkemary 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: Maureenmaureen! 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 beatennow 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 creatureman. 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 moreah! 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?awyouyesyoutoosin!" 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 heavenstarved. 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 themand 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 signa 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 |
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