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| Searching... Subject: RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION Matches Found: 37 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO ZEALOTS UPON THE &C. IN THE OATH, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir roger, from a zealous piece of frieze Last Line: They and their tribe were all &c. Subject(s): Booker, John (1603-1677); Oaths; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict A SHADOW OF TRUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a wondrous vision - a dream, but not of night Last Line: "when the base fiend expediency o'ercomes the seraph right!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Catholics - England; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict AN EXPOSTULATION WITH A SECTARIST, WHO INVEIGHED AGAINST THE CLERGY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, sir; I cannot see to what good end Last Line: Pray by what marks are we to know self-will? Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Discrimination; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Religious Conflict ANNE HUTCHINSON'S EXILE (1638), by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home - where's my baby's home? Last Line: "home, home, here's my baby's home!" Subject(s): Exiles; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict 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 DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink Subject(s): Hate; Religious Discrimination; Catholics; Ireland DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict EARTH'S BATTLE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fight well, encased in christ's armor Last Line: No matter what else betide. Subject(s): Bible; Fights; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Victory; Theology; Religious Conflict EPILOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A virgin-poet was served up today Last Line: And they that know what merchandise we need, %send o'er true protestants to mend our breed Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Discrimination EPOLOGUE TO CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, BY LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion Last Line: To turn for this may surely be forgiven: %who'd not be circumcised for such a heaven? Subject(s): Constantine I (the Great) (d. 337); Politics; Religious Discrimination GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: A little lad is born Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew. Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict HYMN OF THE VAUDOIS MOUTAINEERS IN TIMES OF PERSECUTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the strength of the hills we bless thee Last Line: Our god, our fathers' god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): Hymn Of The Mountain Christian Subject(s): Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict INTOLERANCE; A SATIRE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Start not, my friend, nor think the muse will stain Last Line: And feels but half thy loss while grattan lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Religious Discrimination; English Revolution, 1688; Religious Conflict ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone. Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict JEWISH BRIDE, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: At the black canvas of estrangement Subject(s): Erotic Love; Jews; Love; Religious Discrimination JOHN UNDERHILL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A score of years had come and gone Last Line: Counts with her worthies john underhill. Subject(s): Dover, New Hampshire; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Underhill, John (1597-1672); Religious Conflict LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LOOKING FOR OMAR, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in the school bathroom Subject(s): Youth; Violence; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: When that my son was born in a little town Last Line: To keep a christian peace. Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict MONSIGNOR BENVENISTE WRITES FROM LEWIS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: ...As for sending a priest out to st kilda, I would not Last Line: In the protestant clergy yours in christ Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Discrimination; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MY TEMPLE, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Source First Line: Somebody arsoned my temple Last Line: Only a wailing wall %is left for the weeping Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Arson; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Temples ON THE GROUND OF TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Explain religion by a thousand schemes Last Line: From earth to heav'n, where god is all in all. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Belief; Creed; Theology; Religious Conflict QUANTRAINS: CHURCH AND STATE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the wedding of the church and state! Last Line: With gold the other chokes the mouth of prayer. Subject(s): Marriage; Religious Discrimination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Religious Conflict ROGER WILLIAMS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I sleep amid the snows Last Line: And so the pine boughs cover me. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Williams, Roger (1604-1683); Religious Conflict SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They got me into the sunday-school Last Line: And no children shall worship at my grave. Subject(s): Asian Americans; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, I fear it will come to harm Last Line: (the curtain falls before the chorus has finished.) Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Religious Discrimination; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Religious Conflict THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day? Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 1, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A milk-white hind, immortal and unchang'd Last Line: The lady of the spotted muff began. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 1 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dame, said the panther, times are mended well Last Line: Then couch'd her self securely by her side. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 2 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much malice mingled with a little wit Last Line: With glorious visions of her future state. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 3 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Converts, Catholic; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Stillingfleet, Edward (1635-1699); Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HUE AND THE CRY AFTER SIR JOHN PRESBYTER, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With hair in characters and lugs in text Last Line: His finger's thicker than the prelates' loins.' Subject(s): Prester John; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict THE JEW TO THE GENTILE, by SARA MESSING STERN Poem Text First Line: The priest bent angry gaze upon the jew Last Line: "can bring more souls to god than all man's creed." Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Christianity; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict 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 NEW ANTHEM, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Hammered steel strips laid out Last Line: With joy and peace on every face. Subject(s): Poverty; Racism; Religious Discrimination; Social Protest; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Religious Conflict; America THE PERSIAN PROSECUTION, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For isdegerdes dead, gorones reigns Last Line: Sustain and overcome all hellish jawes. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 4. THE STANDARDS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That last Last Line: Into the sea, and sea shall be no more. Subject(s): Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict |
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