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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TEMPLES Matches Found: 92 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before this new-made altar, lord Last Line: And god himself shall be the light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Churches; God; Religion - Reformers; Temples; Cathedrals; Mosques A DREAM TEMPLE; NEW YORK CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My temple hath yon city roofs for floor Last Line: And they are gone,—the blest, who there have knelt! Subject(s): Temples; Mosques A THOUGHT FOR THE NINTH OF AB, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Swinging low by a garden wall Last Line: Where'er the seeds were sown! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Jews; Temples; Judaism; Mosques AMBERGRIS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I was in the place where ambergris collects Last Line: Let you take everything off here. To let you make a thesaurus Subject(s): Guests; Temples; Travel APHRODITE'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The murmured awe Last Line: Whom I called father once. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Temples AT DENDERA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Here in this narrow chamber, where one ray Last Line: Antony's galley swelled her amber sails. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Dandarah, Egypt; Temples; Mosques BEFORE THE ARK, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When solomon, great king of israel Last Line: "know ye before whom you stand!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Temples; Judaism; Mosques BEING ON DUTY ALL NIGHT IN THE PALACE AND DREAMING OF HSIEN-YU TEMPLE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the western window I paused from writing rescripts Last Line: I still thought it the murmur of a mountain stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sleep; Temples; Mosques BY ACCIDENT, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: Here, I've seen every temple Last Line: Two or three seedlings of pine Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: I builded a castle in the air Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques DOORS, by RUBY MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: I like doors, small friendly doors Last Line: If there were not any doors. Subject(s): Secrets; Temples; Mosques EMPIRE (PERSEPOLIS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow waste of yellow sands Last Line: The memory of persepolis? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Temples; Wind; Mosques EVENING BELLS NEAR A TEMPLE, by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: Under the thin smoke of winter Last Line: How can the old monk %concentrate on zazen? Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism GAZING AT T'IEN-CHU AND LING-YIN TEMPLES, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: On the mountain, east and west, a temple Last Line: And the blye-green mist Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moments there are that loom up from the past Last Line: Radiant with dreams and ancient ecstasy. Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Soul; Temples; Ocean; Mosques GRACE AFTER MEALS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our rock with loving care Last Line: "by blessing of the lord. / our rock, etc" Subject(s): God;grace;jews;prayer;temples; Judaism;mosques HIU-CHU TEMPLE, MOUNT K'UN, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Mountaintops emerge and then vanish Last Line: Bittersweet, still zazen with the monks Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism I SAW THREE TEMPLES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three temples, dead and desolate, Last Line: And all about them blooms the flower of death! Subject(s): Cities; Paestum, Italy; Temples; Urban Life; Mosques ISIS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was e'er ancient time began Last Line: And none my hidden glory know. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Old Age; Temples; Mosques K'U-KIANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the sun like a chinese lantern Last Line: Set in a temple of clouds. Subject(s): China; Grief; Temples; Sorrow; Sadness; Mosques LET US DEPART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night hung on salem's towers Last Line: "let us depart!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jerusalem; Temples; Mosques MAHABALIPURAM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All alone from his dark sanctum the lingam fronts, affronts the sea Last Line: Our ageing limbs respond to those ageless limbs in the rock %reliefs. Relief is the word Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): India; Temples; Travel MASS AT DAWN, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Long ago, in times departed Last Line: And the marvel does not follow! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mass; Temples; Worship MAYAN TEMPLE, by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL Poem Text First Line: Mayan temple, crude and tall Last Line: In a temple made of clay. Subject(s): Mayas; Temples; Mosques MONOGRAPH ON STONES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: They hold within themselves the history of a place Last Line: Directions. I believe in the mysticism of stone Subject(s): History; Stones; Temples MOUNTAIN ROCKS, by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: Ragged mountain rocks efface the path Last Line: How can we grow old without returning there? Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN VALLEY TEMPLE, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: Just getting %into the zen grove Last Line: Brush the dappled moss Subject(s): Monks; Temples; Zen Buddhism 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 MY TEMPLE, by ANNE SHAW Poem Source Subject(s): Temples MY TEMPLE, by NICOLAI MAKSIMOVICH VILENKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rears a temple, rears two monuments Last Line: And in their vanguard death, who shall prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Minsky, N.; Minsky, Nicolai Maksimovich Subject(s): Churches; Death; Temples; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Mosques NATURE'S TEMPLE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun moved down the western sky Last Line: For the immortal name of god. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Nature; Temples; Mosques NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon .... Last Line: When nippon isle was made. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques OLD MONK, by PAO T'AN Poem Source First Line: Down his temples Last Line: He hears it %everywhere Subject(s): Monks; Temples; Zen Buddhism OLD TEMPLE, by CHO JI-HOON Poem Source First Line: Goaded by drowsiness Last Line: Peony petals aer falling Subject(s): Temples OLYMPIAN VICTORS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I stood on the slope of kronos gray, above the olympian plain Last Line: And played in the porch of echo with a murmur long and sweet. Subject(s): Athletes; Olympia, Greece; Temples; Victory; Mosques ON AN ENGRAVING OF HINDOO TEMPLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little the present careth for the past Last Line: By thy free laws and thy immortal creed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India; Temples; Women; Mosques 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 ON THE TERRACE OF CANG JIE'S INVENTION OF CHARACTERS AT SAN-HUI TEMPLE, by TS'EN SHEN Poem Source First Line: A wilderness temple, its grass-grown terrace at dusk Last Line: Still like that time when he first invented writing Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Chinese Language; Temples OVERNIGHT AT A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE, by CHIA TAO Poem Source First Line: Flock of peaks hunched up Last Line: Has never heard tell %of the 'world' down below Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism OXHEAD TEMPLE, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Form my favorite place in the chung-nan mountains Last Line: Thin mist floats in the desolate void Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Temples P'U-T'O TEMPLE, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: A temple, hidden, treasured Last Line: The welling source speaks for him Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism PAGODA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I descend from my carriage Last Line: I do not know its name Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Asia; Begging And Beggars; Buddhism; China; Religion; Shrines; Temples PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO FIRST: 3. THE TEMPLES OF TOKIO, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rest, in mausoleums grand Last Line: Beneath the waving bamboo-trees. Subject(s): Temples; Tokyo; Mosques RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Of all the gods I understand thee least Last Line: The final beauty death has wrought on mine. Subject(s): Abu Simbel, Egypt; Mythology - Egyptian; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Mosques ROAMING FREE IN HUAI-NAN, by ZHANG HU Poem Source First Line: For ten miles long avenues Last Line: Have good fields for tombs Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Temples; Yang-zhou (city), China RODEF SHALOM, by W. G. SKILLMAN Poem Text First Line: When ancient nations bowed the knee Last Line: The one jehovah, sovereign lord. Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Temples; Worship; Judaism; Mosques SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock, coeval with the skies Last Line: While love, his arrows broke, retires forlorn. Subject(s): Affliction; Frost; Ice; Love; Temples; Mosques SERMONS THERE ARE, MUST BE A MILLION, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: Your view will be blocked %by the others Subject(s): Mountains; Temples; Zen Buddhism SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SINCE I CAME TO THIS T'IEN T'AI TEMPLE, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: How many other men will watch those mountains stand Subject(s): Old Age; Temples; Zen Buddhism SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques STAYING AT THE RESIDENCE OF ACADEMICIAN TING CHU YEN, by YU CHAO Poem Source First Line: At our private meeting Last Line: Rings out %strict purity Subject(s): Academia; Temples; Zen Buddhism STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I knew not of the temple of incense massed Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Not know incense incense heap-up temple Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like stranded ice when freshets die Last Line: The quarries be! Subject(s): Greece; Ruins; Temples; Greeks; Mosques SURYA, THE SUN GOD, by JOHN PROCTOR MILLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the temple walls the shadows meet Last Line: To greet the golden fleet of surya passing by. Subject(s): Temples; Mosques T'IEN-HO TEMPLE, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green tiles, red railings Last Line: The sound would just fade %in that distance Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism TASAJARA, 1969, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even buddha is lost in this land Last Line: Coyotes met him Subject(s): Temples; Buddhism TEMPLE BELLS, by MABEL BLACK MYERS Poem Text First Line: My window frames an artist's dream Last Line: I hear the temple bells! Subject(s): Bells; Temples; Winter; Mosques TEMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have devoted more than one day simply Last Line: Pine-cones are strewn like roses Subject(s): Caves; Temples; Thought THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: There is a legend full of joy and pain Last Line: Within its place. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Legends; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE BAYADERE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near strange, weird temples, where the ganges' tide Last Line: Lulls the grim, drowsy cobra on her arm. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology; Temples; Mosques THE CHURCH OF THE HEART, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the dales of the human heart Last Line: Tho' it hath no priests and it hath no bells! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Religion; Temples; Theology; Mosques THE DESERTED SHRINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the temple for a people's need Last Line: Of love that on forsaken hearts abide. Subject(s): Churches; Decay; Ruins; Shrines; Temples; Cathedrals; Rot; Decadence; Mosques THE DOORS IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three doors are in the temple Last Line: And grant him his needed day. Subject(s): Temples; Mosques THE DREAM IN THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy night is falling Last Line: The temple of the god. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Temples; Mosques THE EARTHLY HOUSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once - in the ages that have passed away Last Line: "lord, who destroyest the temple -- is it I?" Subject(s): Temples; Mosques THE HERETIC IN THE TEMPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lone did I go within the ancient place Last Line: Across the world, in its death-seeking quest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; History; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Historians; Mosques THE MENORAH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the temple, softly, clearly burning Last Line: Is the blessed law of israel! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Religion; Temples; Judaism; Theology; Mosques THE MIRACULOUS OIL, by CAROLINE DEUTSCH Poem Text First Line: Little cruet in the temple Last Line: Through the centuries of darkest night! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Light; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE MOSQUE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A simple unpartitioned room Last Line: Rest, as if rapt in glory there! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Temples; Mosques THE NEW TEMPLE, by LOUIS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A new shrine stands in beauty reared Last Line: With concord and with peace. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Temples; Judaism; Mosques 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 PALACE OF PAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September, all glorious with gold, as a king Last Line: Pine ridge: september, 1893. Subject(s): Fantasy; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); September; Temples; Mosques THE PILGRIM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A temple bell Last Line: Toward nirvana!' Subject(s): Bells; Buddhism; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Soul; Temples; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 1, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I came to tientai temple Last Line: All I see are youngsters Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Temples; Time; Youth; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques THE TEMPLE, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth, o people Last Line: With truth and peace. Subject(s): God; Jews; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE TEMPLE OF ART, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The temple of art lies open evermore Last Line: And one man enters in a thousand suns! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Temples; Mosques THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques THE UNCHANGED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could salvage babylon Last Line: To find her just like you and me? Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Temples; Mosques THREE MEN OF TRURO: 2. A.B.D. CANON RESIDENTIARY AND PRECENTOR TRURO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many had builded, and, the building done Last Line: His ever-living rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Clergy; Temples; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mosques THY TEMPLE; A PRAYER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Thy temple may my body be Last Line: May my foot find no hidden stone. Subject(s): Prayer; Temples; Mosques TO BE SHOWN TO THE MONKS AT A CERTAIN TEMPLE, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: Not yet to the shore of non-doing Last Line: It it's evening, even if it's fall Subject(s): Temples; Zen Buddhism TO THE TUNE OF PLUM BLOSSOMS IN THE BREEZE : EVENING BELL AT A MISTY, by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: Thin cold smoke, Last Line: Practice dhyana Subject(s): Bells; Temples 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 ULTIMA THULE, by INEZ SHELDON TYLER Poem Text First Line: Our souls are temples, vaulted high and spaced Last Line: We'll later place them in the hands of god. Subject(s): God; Soul; Temples; Mosques VIOLIN SONGS: THE TEMPLE OF GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert by the bush Last Line: In his heart he makes his home. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jesus Christ; Job (bible); Moses; Prayer; Temples; Mosques VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilome the sisters nine were vestall maides Last Line: From common trulls, and loathsome brothelry. Subject(s): Fate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Temples; Destiny; Mosques VISITING THE TEMPLE OF MOUNT HENG, THEN SPENDING THE NIGHT, by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: The ritual ranks of the five great peaks Last Line: Till, gradually growing, the wintry sun %appeared off in the east Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Temples WRITTEN ON THE CHAN-ZI TEMPLE IN YANG-ZHOU, by DU MU Poem Source First Line: Rain passes, a cicada's piercing cry Last Line: The singing and piping that is yang-zhou? Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Temples; Yang-zhou (city), China ZION'S UNIVERSAL TEMPLE, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Under the orient skies of sapphire where the sun Last Line: Echo shall forevermore. Subject(s): God; Jews; Temples; Zionism; Judaism; Mosques |
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