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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PURGATORY Matches Found: 24 DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 1, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the midway of this our mortal life Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 10, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we were in over the sill of the gate Last Line: Seemed to be saying through tears, 'I can do no more' Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 11. PRAYER OF PENITENTS, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou almighty father! Who dost make Last Line: "but for their sakes who after us remain." Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 16. MAN'S FREE WILL, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye, who live / do so each cause refer to heaven above Last Line: "seek in yourselves the cause, and find it there." Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 2, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the day departing, and the air Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 20, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against a better will the will fights poorly Last Line: So I went on, timid and sunk in thought Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 22, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By this time the angel was behind us Last Line: Which the gospel makes apparent to you Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Hell; Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 24, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The words neither slowed the walking nor the going Last Line: Does not smoke with too much longing in the breast, %but they hunger only for waht is just Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Hell; Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 27. FIRE OF PURIFICATION, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the sun so stationed, as when first Last Line: The beams were shrouded of the sunking sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 4, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Broke the deep slumber in my brain a crash Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 5, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the first circle I descended thus Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Paolo And Francesc Subject(s): Purgatory FELLINI IN PURGATORY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was shoveling sand Subject(s): Purgatory; Fellini, Federico (1920-1993) FORSAKEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word is said, and I no more shall know Last Line: Save for a bedesman telling o'er his beads. Subject(s): Prayer; Purgatory; Soul LONG ENOUGH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How long did homer stay in purgatory? Last Line: A calm storm of thoughts unfullstopping her head Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Joyce, James (1882-1941); Poetry And Poets; Purgatory; Thought OWAIN MILLS: OWAIN'S VISIT TO PARADISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the fiends, with them the knight they bear" Last Line: To stand before thy face! Subject(s): Purgatory PURGATORIO, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I snap awake %from brief nap on shipboard-my seat Last Line: Seems hellbent to snuff out %its brief life.... Subject(s): Purgatory PURGATORY, by WILLIAM+(1) BURNS Poem Source First Line: Altar boy, given to self Subject(s): Altar Boys; Purgatory PURGATORY, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was dead Last Line: "and live again—and she not love you!" Subject(s): Purgatory PURGATORY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Readers wee entreat ye pray Last Line: That your teares may coole her fires. Subject(s): Purgatory PURGATORY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lord, how long Last Line: The strength of torture tame. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Purgatory PURGATORY OF HELL, by EDOARDO SANGUINETI Poem Source First Line: Beyond that purgatory of gardens (and the white light, and the iron Last Line: Boxes of picture-postcards, all written, and stamped Subject(s): Purgatory; Scottish Translations THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE PURGATORY OF SAINT PATRICK, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause, o patrick! Thou art going Last Line: Of this remote and lonely sea. Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Purgatory THE SOULS IN PURGATORY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the dead must hurry on Subject(s): Purgatory |
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