|
|
|
|
| Searching... Subject: SABBATH Matches Found: 157 A POEM FOR THE SMALL FACE, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of his palace Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Sabbath A SABBATH DAY; IN FIVE WATCHES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were three men and women two Last Line: The quiet festival of sleep. Subject(s): Holy Family; Sabbath; Sunday A SABBATH HYMN, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day is for israel light and rejoicing Last Line: Attributed to isaac luria. Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday A SABBATH MORNING AT SEA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship went on with solemn face Last Line: To the full godhead's burning. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sea; Sunday; Ocean A SABBATH SCENE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the solemn sabbath-bell Last Line: Undo the heavy burden! Subject(s): Sabbath; Slavery; Sunday; Serfs AN EXTRA SABBATH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know it in the morning Last Line: "in the middle of the week!" Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday ANGELUS, by CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem Source First Line: One opens the book at random, opens the day Last Line: Everything changed, everything different Subject(s): Change; Sabbath ANTI-SUNDAY-SERMON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quickest way to maim an artist Last Line: I faithfully still believe! Subject(s): God; Sabbath; Sermons; Sunday ANY COUNTRY CHURCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A shaft of sunlight strikes, shines through Last Line: And fellow-convicts 'neath one self-same sentence ... Death. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Easter; Holidays; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; The Resurrection; Sunday AUNTIE'S LESSONS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said their texts, and their hymns they sang Last Line: Dear alice's words in my heart will stay. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday BELLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bells ring every day Last Line: Is glad to have them there. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday BLACK SABBATH, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: He liked being the director. I was dizzied by the way he jerked his chin at Last Line: Amphetamine, and wingless, absolutely... Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sabbath BLESSING THE LIGHTS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silver candlesticks that beam Last Line: "shining, beaming, god, for thee." Subject(s): Candles; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES BRIGHT SUNDAY, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of bluebeard's wives bright sunday was the best Last Line: He pitched her, lute and all, into the moat. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday BUCK, ALONE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Out for sulfur shelf, walking up a trail, the damp gray day Last Line: Tongue and palate, swallow sweetness, spit out pith. I fill %my plastic bag and stroll on home Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Sabbath BY AUGHNA BRAE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the burn; I mind the brae Last Line: Thon spire by aughna brae! Subject(s): Churches; Memory; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday CHARADE: 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, my first! In peerless radiance beaming Last Line: Our earnest of the day which knows no night Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday COME, MY BELOVED, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: Come, my beloved, to meet the bride Last Line: With joy receive the sabbath bride. Subject(s): Brides; Jews; Love - Marital; Sabbath; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Sunday CRUELEST LIES ARE TOLD ON SUNDAYS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Today a sunday afternoon Last Line: But be silent today. %and I will lie to you. %the worst lies are told %on empty sunday afternoons Subject(s): Calendar; Lies; Sabbath DAT GAL O' MINE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skin as black an' jes as sof' as a velvet dress Last Line: O' mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Religion; Sabbath; Theology; Sunday DOWN TO GOD'S, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: On sundays, we never said Last Line: And headed to the honeybee for breakfast %down the wide streets from god's Subject(s): God; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text 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 EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 1, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: Sundays we Last Line: Save these poor wretches Subject(s): Angels; Prayer; Sabbath FIRST CIGARETTE, by JOSEPH ROLNIK Poem Source First Line: My first sabbath cigarette between my lips Last Line: And laughed into his deep white beard Subject(s): Sabbath; Smoking FRIDAY NIGHT, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The majesty of sunset in the west Last Line: And over all god's blessings everywhere! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Prayer; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night. Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday GOD OF THE WORLD (A SABBATH HYMN), by ISRAEL NAJARA Poem Text First Line: God of the world, eternity's sole lord! Last Line: King over kings, be now thy name adored! Subject(s): God; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday GOD'S SABBATH, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in this quiet. Lie down Last Line: As fossil stone in sun. Sleep well. %bring dreams of waking Subject(s): God; Sabbath GRACE FOR THE SABBATH, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To israel this day is joy ever bless'd Last Line: Is light and is gladness, a sabbath of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday GREETINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A solitary condom, sad and crinkled Last Line: Greets the bells greeting %sunday morning air. Subject(s): Birth Control; Sabbath; Streets HOME FROM PRAYING, by JOSEPH ROLNIK Poem Source First Line: The air was always damp and cool Last Line: And at such an odd hour Subject(s): Prayer; Sabbath HOW WE SPENT A SABBATH DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our's is a week dark unco crowded house Last Line: Fearin' results does duty aft deter; %we're prone tae judge,an' speak, an' act for god - an' err Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Sabbath HYMN FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE SABBATH, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May he who sets the holy and profane Last Line: And as the stars of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday HYMN TO FIRE, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT Poem Text First Line: Oh, fire who purgeth us Last Line: Shed perpetual light! Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Sabbath; Sunday I HAD NO CAUSE TO BE AWAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I struggled — and was there Subject(s): Sabbath; Sleep IN BOZEN OF A SUNDAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In bozen of a sunday, the air is gay with chiming Last Line: In bozen of a sunday, when the hills are glad with spring. Subject(s): Bolzano-bozen Province, Italy; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday IN THE WOODS, by JR. WILLIAM MEYER Poem Source First Line: Sundays my father silently drove Last Line: Branches of the terrible high pines Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Forests; Sabbath IT'S GOOD, IT'S GOOD NOT TO SHIELD THE HEART THIS WAY, by PERETS MARKISH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Markish, Peretz Subject(s): Sabbath ITALIAN QUATRAIN: SABBATH MORNING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond my room's rose-covered convent wall Last Line: I'll swear that satyr's stone mouth grinned at me! Subject(s): Italy; Sabbath; Italians; Sunday LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. BUCHANAN, OF DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gentle lady, with the bounteous hand Last Line: Long after thou art laid in hallowed rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Learning; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES ON SEEING THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROCESSION OF 3RD JULY, 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were thousand angels sinless, bright Last Line: Like him who took your nature on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Sabbath; Youth; Childhood; Theology; Sunday MARKETPLACE SLEEPS, ITS BOOTHS LIKE SKULLS, by PERETS MARKISH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Markish, Peretz Subject(s): Sabbath MAY SUNDAY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bells would be good if they could keep their place Last Line: That break the deep enchantment of this hour! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday MORTEM, QUAE VIOLAT SUAVIA, PELLIT AMOR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging rocks, whose ravenous throats Last Line: Will pass and flee, when thou art here. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sabbath; Titans (mythology); Sunday MY LADY GOES TO CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: When sabbath comes, and holy calms Last Line: My lady goes to church! Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday NON SUM DIGNUS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His sabbath, as all others, finds Last Line: The gate again in seven days Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 1. WADHAM, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is like a sabbath in a swoon Last Line: The old quadrangle paved with afternoon. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 2, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No footfall sounds within the empty hall Last Line: A comfortable and a holy spot withal. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh andrew fairservice - but I beg pardon Last Line: To make a sunday workhouse of the church. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Sabbath; Work; Workers; Sunday ON SEEING A THOUSAND SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PROCESSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? Last Line: And reap thy full reward above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle Last Line: On sunday morn! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday ON THE ROAD TO JERICHO, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: On road to jericho one day Last Line: And each passed by on the other side. Subject(s): Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Sunday; Mosques OTHERWISE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunday afternoon, ballybough road Last Line: Otherwise, a peaceful sabbath, thank god Subject(s): Children; Sabbath; Violence OUR ENGLISH SABBATHS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O england, thou art beautiful, and very dear to me Last Line: And know not that our father's law is truest liberty! Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday PAULA'S SUNDAYS, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Things recede: voices, shades Last Line: The bird long since having shut up Subject(s): Sabbath PLOUGHING ON SUNDAY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white cock's tail Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; Sabbath; Sunday PLOUGHING ON SUNDAY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white cock's tail Last Line: The wind pours down Subject(s): Plowing And Plowmen; Sabbath PROVINCIAL SUNDAYS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: On sundays when the weather's good, traditionally Last Line: Not one beauty, who would miss mass Subject(s): Holidays; Mass; Sabbath RAIN, by RACHEL L. WHITE Poem Text First Line: O rain, why come on sunday Last Line: Sometimes I make mistakes. Subject(s): Rain; Sabbath; Water; Sunday RAIN: SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: It is palm Last Line: A lesson about jesus %into his palm Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Sabbath; Youth ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: PRINCESS SABBATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In arabia's books of stories Last Line: Till it crackles and goes out. Subject(s): Arabia; Daughters; Love; Sabbath; Sunday SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath is here, and the heavens are beaming Last Line: Then sing like an angel at the gateway of heaven! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little aside from the sweep and whirl Last Line: Are cordial and help to my spirit yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Sabbath; Sunday SABBATH EVE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sweet sabbath eve has drawn near Last Line: Floats out on the soft evening air. Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sabbath; Dead, The; Sunday SABBATH HYMN, by SOLOMON BEN MOSES HA-LEVI ALKABEZ Poem Text First Line: Come forth, my friend, the bride to meet Last Line: Come, o my friend, the sabbath greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkabiz, Solomon Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday 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 SABBATH HYMN ON THE MOUNTAINS, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise ye the lord! / not in the temple of shapeliest mould Last Line: Praise ye the lord! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SABBATH LIE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On friday, at twilight of a summer day Last Line: I’ve gone to another life Subject(s): Sabbath; Jews; Sunday; Judaism SABBATH MORNING, by L. DALE AHERN Poem Text First Line: Sabbath comes to a small town Last Line: Like old women together after church. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SABBATH MORNING, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful the sunday morn, amid Last Line: Leap up, to put its glorious garments on. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SABBATH REMINISCENCES, by MRS. JOHN GRAY Poem Text First Line: I remember, I remember, when sabbath morning rose Last Line: From heaven descending to the earth, led back from earth to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewers, Miss Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SABBATH THOUGHTS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text First Line: I bless thee, father, for the grace Last Line: Bid work-day turmoil cease. Subject(s): God; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH TRIPTYCH, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Music by wagner: horns and violins Last Line: The unclouded sunlight equably surveys %its colours redisposed a thousand ways Subject(s): God; Prophets And Prophecy; Sabbath SABBATHS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sabbaths are threefold, (as s. Austine sayes) Last Line: The last the sabbath of eternitie. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SABBATHS: 2001, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He waits in darkness all around Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SABBATICAL, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: What am I sleeping to on these days, a sabbatical in the second year of Last Line: This morning I had oatmeal for breakfast, the snow is so deep Subject(s): Sabbath SACRED EPIGRAM: THE SABBATH, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How much the same thing si distinquished by different practice! Last Line: Therefore - and what is more than just than this agreement? - let %men observe our sabbaths, oxen yo Subject(s): Sabbath SATURDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The sabbath now / can a more ample title show Last Line: Till ye worlds generall crack shall set them ope. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Holy Week; Sabbath; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sunday SEARCH, by CARRIE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: She sneaks out of bed like a tiny thief Last Line: She will be saved. %she believes Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Sabbath; Sin SOLITUDE, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Sunday. Starting to get light Last Line: Whether being alone %is a good or bad thing Subject(s): Sabbath; Solitude SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm going, all along Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship SON-DAYS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright shadows of true rest! Some shoots of bliss Last Line: Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Son-dayes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sabbath; Sunday SONG FOR FRIDAY NIGHT, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou beautiful sabbath, thou sanctified day Last Line: All eager to greet thee with praise and with song. Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SOW, by JOSEPH O. LEGASPI Poem Source First Line: Her squeal pierced the silence of the sabbath Last Line: Her wail became as much a part of us as the air Subject(s): Noises; Sabbath SUNDAY, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Fruit-vender church Last Line: Comes scampering out of church Subject(s): Churches; Markets; Merchants; Sabbath SUNDAY, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Late arrivals at mass, in lace Last Line: Futility civilization Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Mass; Sabbath SUNDAY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O day most calm, most bright Last Line: Flie hand in hand to heav'n! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SUNDAY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm always glad when sundays comes, and our Last Line: Do not have to dodge or spurn the agent for a patent churn. Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have moving over us, over head and spire Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAY, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher's voice droned on and on Last Line: Her gemless, withered hands. Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday-/ eleven in the morning; people were at / church Last Line: It was sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insanity; Marching & Marches; Sabbath; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness; Sunday SUNDAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This day that would tell us what we are Last Line: Where all days are sundays %disguised as work days Subject(s): Sabbath SUNDAY BELLS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet sabbath bells Last Line: With blood he hath bought us: then praise him to-day! Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY MORNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Someone threw a red knickers on my roof last night Last Line: Then they drift towards prayer. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Sabbath; Shame SUNDAY MORNING, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road someone is practising scales Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAY MORNING, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road someone is practising scales Last Line: Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Sabbath SUNDAY MORNING BELLS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the near city comes the clang of bells Last Line: "to ""glory in the highest, -- on earth peace""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Bells; Peace; Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SUNDAY NIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest him, o father! Thou didst send him forth Last Line: With soothing power his listening, resting soul. Subject(s): Prayer; Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAY PAPERS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The butchery of the innocent Subject(s): War; Sabbath; Religion; Innocence; Sunday; Theology SUNDAY REVERY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond my dingy window pane Last Line: Thy blessing on my head! Subject(s): Nature; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday SUNDAY SLAUGHTER, by JAMES CLEGHORN Poem Source First Line: After an endless morning Last Line: The grease of that perilous sunday Subject(s): Sabbath SUNDAY SONNET, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: For a sunday like this, at home there is much peace Last Line: Taking away on this: that which does not last Subject(s): Sabbath SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers Subject(s): New Guinea; Sabbath; Soldiers; Sunday SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers Last Line: And your love's presence, snowy, beautiful, and kind Subject(s): New Guinea; Sabbath; Soldiers SUNDAYS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking over toward tamalpais Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAY, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sabbath; Summer; Sunday THE BOY OUT OF CHURCH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As jesus and his followers Last Line: Were never made for man. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE CAMERONIAN CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cameronian cat Subject(s): Animals;cats;clergy;mice;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;sunday THE COUNTRY CURATE, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In t' other hundred, o'er yon swarthy moor Last Line: And falls, alas! Unpitied, as he lived before. Subject(s): Healing; Sabbath; Cures; Sunday THE DAY OF REST, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o sabbath day, and bring Last Line: Thou shalt rest. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday THE DEACON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The deacon wandered forth one day and saw a Last Line: He now stands for good, clean ball games, even on the sabbath day! Subject(s): Baseball; Clergy; Sabbath; Sports; Temptation; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday THE DEMON DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do well to be angry, even unto death,' Last Line: Leaving want, woe, and shame, desolation and gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Mothers; Sabbath; Sin; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sunday; Prohibition THE ENGLISH FARM-LABORER'S SUNDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are sweet that sweep to-day Last Line: Each day in all the seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Churches; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Sunday THE FORESIDE MEETING HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The meeting house belies its age today Last Line: When we are memories. Subject(s): Churches; God; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday THE FURY OF SUNDAYS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moist, moist, / the heat leaking through the hinges, Subject(s): Sabbath; Conduct Of Life; Sunday THE HEBREW'S FRIDAY NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'come, my beloved, to meet the bride; the face" Last Line: The sweet humanities which make our higher life Subject(s): Brides;jews;love - Marital;sabbath; Judaism;wedded Love;marriage - Love;sunday THE INFANTS THREE SABATHS', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, infant, slumber Last Line: Consecrate thy rest Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Sabbath THE LAST SABBATH LIGHT, by HENRY ROSENBLATT Poem Text First Line: The last lone sabbath candle sheds Last Line: "and build a star in heaven." Subject(s): Jews; Light; Sabbath; Stars; Judaism; Sunday THE OLD CHURCH, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lifteth its gray old spire from the heart of the busy town Last Line: Of the hallelujahs rising in that temple of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; God; Graves; Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday; Mosques 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 PUBLICAN'S NEW SUNDAY ACT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now what do you think of this wonderful act Last Line: And guzzle enough for to last you a week Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;england;sabbath; English;sunday THE RUSSIAN JEWISH RABBI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "old and gray, his shoulders bent" Last Line: In your heart a deathly moan Subject(s): Clergy;jews;russia;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism;soviet Union;russians;sunday THE SABBATH, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh glides the brook and blows the gale Last Line: And holds his feast for all! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SABBATH, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Not for us the sabbath of the quiet streets Last Line: Ours 'tis to bear the sabbath in our souls. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Silence; Judaism; Sunday THE SABBATH, by JAMES GRAHAME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still the morning of the hallowed day! Last Line: His iron-armed hoofs gleam in the morning ray. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SABBATH, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a pleasant morning, in the time Last Line: How holy was the sabbath-day of god. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SABBATH DAY-KIDDUSH AND HABDALAH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou sweet sabbath of rest! Priceless gift from / above! Last Line: "while a creature incarnate, a foretaste of heaven" Subject(s): Angels;faith;jews;messengers;sabbath; Belief;creed;judaism;sunday THE SABBATH EVE, by SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD Poem Text First Line: In quaint old talmud's pages Last Line: "his sorrowful, ""amen!" Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday THE SABBATH LAMP, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text First Line: Shine, sabbath lamp, oh shine with tender ray! Last Line: And light our souls to find the road to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Sabbath; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday THE SABBATH MORNING, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With silent awe I hail the sacred morn Last Line: So smiled that day when the first morn arose! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday THE SABBATH OF THE SOUL, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares Last Line: A god of purity! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): Hymn X Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 1, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a week of restless care and coil Last Line: All living things mute adoration own. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 2, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If earth hath aught that speaks to us of heaven Last Line: "home ye shall pass to meet your maker's eye?" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 3, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soother of life, physician of all ail Last Line: Is ever through sin's labyrinth our guide. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 4, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen hath our lot on days of pleasant calm Last Line: Remorse and moral blindness be unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 5, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On shores far foreign, or remoter seas Last Line: All yet shall meet on heaven's eternal strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SCOTTISH SABBATH: 6, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight's grey shades are gathering o'er the dell Last Line: Where heaven is served more purely than in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday THE SHEPHERD'S SABBATH SONG, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sabbath of the lord Last Line: Sheds its holy beams abroad! Subject(s): God; Religion; Sabbath; Theology; Sunday THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Susan, the constant slave to mop and broom Last Line: And ride themselves an airing with the devil. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Sunday; Serfs THE SUNDAY BOOK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read to him, connie, read as you sit Last Line: Across the waves of a wintry sea. Subject(s): Books; Sabbath; Reading; Sunday THE SUNDAY RAIL: 1. FIRST RUNNING SUNDAY TRAINS ON NORTH BRITISH RAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires! Last Line: Oh, is it too much?—'tis but one day in seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Railroads; Sabbath; English; Railways; Trains; Sunday THE SUNDAY RAIL: 2. A SCOTTISH SUMMER SABBATH MORNING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still repose, the holy calm Last Line: By idle pleasure, sin, and folly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Railroads; Religion; Sabbath; Scotland; Railways; Trains; Theology; Sunday THE THUNDER STORM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath morn came sweetly on Last Line: In that sad evening hour. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Sabbath; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Sunday 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 WOMAN'S THANKS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much strong men are thankful for Last Line: My thanks for these thy little blessings' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Sabbath; Thanksgiving; Women; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING AFTER CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday morning just after church -- and a light warm Last Line: Teeth. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday UNCLE DAN'L IN TOWN OVER SUNDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cain't git used to city ways Last Line: Wisht I hed you home with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Sabbath; Towns; Sunday VPON HIS SABBOTH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles greenham writeth of the sabboths rest Last Line: Hard is to say whether is the happiest. Subject(s): Rest; Sabbath; Soul; Writing & Writers; Sunday WAKING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to break loose, like the chinook Last Line: In our monotonous sublime Subject(s): Sabbath; Waking; God WALKING IN THE ZOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the stilton, sir, the cheese, the o.K. Thing to do" Last Line: "the horror and the agony, that sunday in the zoo" Subject(s): Animals;sabbath;walking;zoos; Sunday WESTLAND ROW, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sunday there's a throng Last Line: As they thought of during prayers. Subject(s): Clergy; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance; Sunday WHERE TO GO ON SUNDAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How to spend a sunday - that's the problem now Last Line: Why not church on sunday? Ever thought of that? Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday WHY ARE THEY SHUT?, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are our churches shut with jealous care Last Line: Why are they shut? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sabbath; Sin; Soul; Cathedrals; Sunday |
|