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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOMEN & RELIGION Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul selects her own society Last Line: Like stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The habit is heavy Last Line: No whole abiding / sister Subject(s): Habits; Sisters; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 7. GLORIA MUNDI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So knowing, / what is known? Last Line: In one life. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, / it is I who am absent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology FRATERNITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I / can step inside Last Line: Heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we live in the browning season Last Line: The dance of feathers, the dance of birds. Subject(s): Nature; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion O FIRE OF GOD, THE COMFORTER, by HILDEGARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fire of god, the comforter, o life of all that live Last Line: Who givest us the prize of light, who art thyself all praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is / not with us enough Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 20, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, my beloved, when I think Last Line: Who cannot guess god's presence out of sight. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our two souls stand up erect and strong Last Line: With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived with visions for my company Last Line: Because god's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own beloved, who hast lifted me Last Line: That love, as strong as death, retrieves as well. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion ST. CECILIA'S HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Born of a virgin, most lowly and meek Last Line: To live, like a virgin baptiz'd in thy name. Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Saints; Women & Religion STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion THEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was my first landscape Last Line: Of birds. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion |
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