The Sister Of Charity (Gerald Joseph Griffen Poems)
She once was a lady of honor and wealth; Bright glowed in her features the roses of health; Her vesture was blended ...
Poems about thorn-crowned (19 Poems)
Good Friday, A.D. 33 (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Mother, why are people crowding now and staring? Child, it is a malefactor goes to His doom,To the high hill of ...
The Vision Of St. Peter (John Hay Poems)
To Peter by night the faithfullest came And said, "We appeal to thee!The life of the Church is in thy life; We ...
Wesley Everest (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(Mutilated and murdered at Centralia, Washington,November 11th, 1919, by a mob of "respectable"businessmen.) Torn and defiant as a wind-lashed reed, Wounded he ...
Sorrow (Katrina Trask Poems)
O thorn-crowned Sorrow, pitiless and stern, I sit alone with broken heart, my head Low bowed, keeping long vigil with ...
The Promise (Katharine Tynan Poems)
To you and you it shall be given,As unto Mary her lost Heaven; Her Son and your son comeAlive out of ...
Margaret Of Cortona (Edith Wharton Poems)
Fra Paolo, since they say the end is near,And you of all men have the gentlest eyes,Most like our father ...
The Priest’s Warning (Constance Naden Poems)
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
A Legend (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
He walked alone beside the lonely sea,The slanting sunbeams fell upon his face,His shadow fluttered on the pure white sandsLike ...
Christ Betrayed (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Eighteen hundred years agoneWas that deed of darkness done --Was that sacred, thorn-crowned headTo a shameful death betrayed,And Iscariot's traitor ...
Good Friday (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
O Heart of Three-in-the evening, You nestled the thorn-crowned head;He leaned on you in His sorrow, And rested on you ...
Apology (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
TO THE SURVIVORS (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
NOW they sing the hero loud; -- But they sing him in his shroud. Torch he kindled for his land; ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
Ave Imperatrix (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
In the Long Run (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In the long run fame finds the deserving man. The lucky wight may prosper for a day, But in good ...
Duality (George William Russell Poems)
WHO gave thee such a ruby flaming heart And such a pure cold spirit? Side by side I know these ...
How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and ...
Above the Battle’s Front (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John - Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand, Returned, the hate ...