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| Searching... Subject: QUAKERS Matches Found: 41 A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: There was a man who put on airs Last Line: Because they were too ladified. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother in our saviour christ - his grace Last Line: And christian love here dictates what I say. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Sympathy; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy A VISION OF SAINTS: ELIZABETH FRY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then I saw a stately figure come Last Line: "and whoso loves his brother, loves his lord." Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845); Quakers AN EYE OF A QUEEN AND A TESTICLE OF A BULL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We each one wear moccasins & a strip of deerskin Last Line: Loving an enchantment of islands Subject(s): Country Life; Friends, Religious Society Of; Hunting; Property; Quakers; Hunters; Possessions ANNIVERSARY POEM; ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDS' YEARLY MEETING SCH., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, dear friends, you meet beneath a clouded sky Last Line: The crown for cross! Subject(s): Alumni; American Civil War; Friends, Religious Society Of; U.s. - History; Quakers CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict CHALKLEY HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze Last Line: The holy hues of heaven! Subject(s): Chalkley, Thomas (1675-1741); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers DANIEL WHEELER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearly loved! Last Line: And glorious as lebanon! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Missions & Missionaries; Wheeler, Daniel (d. 1840); Quakers DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK, 1813, by THOMAS EATON Poem Text First Line: The lord supreme the basis laid Last Line: Makes us forget where we have been. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; Quakers DRAB BONNETS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may cant of costumes, and of brilliant head-dresses Last Line: And the bonnet of drab is still beauteous to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Hats; Quakers FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In calm and cool and silence, once again Last Line: Yet trusting not in mine, but in his strength alone! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Worship; Quakers FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text 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 HOW THE WOMEN WENT FROM DOVER; 1662, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tossing spray of cocheco's fall Last Line: She smoothed the thorns with her bleeding feet. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Freedom; Quakers MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To broad lands though a foe, to broad brims still a friend Last Line: John's speech has already made all of them quakers. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Friends, Religious Society Of; Landlords & Tenants; Quakers ON BARCLAY'S APOLOGY FOR THE QUAKERS, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sheets primeval doctrines yield, / where revelation is revealed Last Line: The crows, that brought him bread and meat.' Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Prometheus; Quakers ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son. Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever be the meaning of that creed Last Line: By the son's act, the father's late remorse? Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prove his own love of peace and sanction theirs Last Line: Day after day, the balance of his soul. Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers QUAERE, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Whether at doomsday (tell, ye reverend wise) Last Line: My friend priapus with myself shall rise? Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers QUAKERDOM - THE FORMAL CALL, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through her forced, abnormal quiet Last Line: And the stately mother found us prim enough to suit her eye. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Love; Quakers REVELATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, as of old, in beavor's vale Last Line: And hear the song of hope she sings. Subject(s): Fox, George (1624-1691); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 9. THE DREAM OF ISAAC THE QUAKER, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit of that quaker sire of mine Last Line: Still from these hills his children heaven adore! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers THE CROSS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cross, if rightly borne, shall be Last Line: Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Friends, Religious Society Of; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Quakers; Serfs THE FAIR QUAKERESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a fair young girl, yet on her brow Last Line: Like waters from the desert-rock of old. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Girls; Quakers THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died. Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict THE MYSTIFIED QUAKER IN NEW YORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Respected wife: by these few lines my whereabouts thee'll learn Last Line: So I left them in disgust: plain-spoken men like me / with such perverters of our tongue can have no Subject(s): "friends, Religious Society Of;new York City;speech;" "quakers;manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;oratory;orators; THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to posterity! Last Line: The world forgets, but the wise angels know. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651-1720); Pilgrim Fathers; Spener, Philipp Jacob (1635-1705); U.s. - Colonial Period; Quakers THE PRINCE'S BALL, 1860, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, haven't you heard how an english prince, prince, prince Last Line: Of the splendour and fame of the prince's ball! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Quakers THE QUAKER ALUMNI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the well-springs of hudson, the sea-cliffs of maine Last Line: And winnow in mercy our good from the ill! Subject(s): Alumni; Friends, Religious Society Of; Newport, Rhode Island; Religious Freedom; Quakers THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four straight brick walls, severely plain Last Line: In gentlest mockery. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Quakers THE QUAKER LADY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid drab and gray of moldered leaves Last Line: Their quaint obeisance made. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Women; Quakers THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaker poet!' -- is such name Last Line: Of him, who is its donor! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Poetry & Poets; Self; Quakers THE QUAKER WIDOW, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee finds me in the garden, hannah Last Line: The lord looks down contentedly upon a willing mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Widows & Widowers; Quakers THE QUAKERESS BRIDE, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, not in the halls of the noble and proud Last Line: "I am thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out! Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers THE SEEKER, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I first came to london, I rambled about Last Line: Tis plain, without turnpikes, so nothing to pay.' Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers THREE QUAKERS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met three quakers on a hill Last Line: Would make him be a quaker goat. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet girl! Though only once we met Last Line: Of him who never can forget!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptur'd monuments around Last Line: Calmly to share thy couch, which needs no graven stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Cemeteries; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Quakers |
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