The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; ...
Poems about alms (31 Poems)
THE BEGGAR TO MAB, THE FAIRY QUEEN (Robert Herrick Poem)
Please your Grace, from out your store Give an alms to one that's poor, That your mickle may have more. ...
BALLAD OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
Work chapter VII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work." And he answered, saying: You work that you may keep pace ...
Yesterday and Today XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
The Criminal V (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
Alms (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was begging for alms, money for the poor, this lame man What he received, healing; but not merely of ...
Authentic (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A pure, honesty, authentic human encounter looking at each other squarely in the eye Asking for his daily bread for ...
His Cup for Alms (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
By the gate he sat his cup for alms to make his way He asked for alms, to meet his ...
No Alms to Give (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like us, sometimes, meager resources They like him, no alms to give Itinerant preachers, lay witnesses to Christ servant savior ...
The Source of the Healing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The mighty name, the risen Lord Jesus the Christ, of Nazareth! the lamb, the perfect sacrifice Invoking his name alone ...
More than any Alm (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Looking to them for alms They called his attention, his true, complete focus They had something important something extraordinary to ...
Healing they Gave (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
More than any alms, more so much more than silver, than gold healing they gave, in the name in the ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
The Tradesman and the Scholar (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
A Loafer (John Davidson Poem)
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
Sonnet VI: How Many Paltry Things (Michael Drayton Poem)
How many paltry, foolish, painted things, That now is coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no Poet sings, ...
Sonnet XXII: Love, Banish’d Heav’n (Michael Drayton Poems)
Love, banish'd Heav'n, on Earth was held in scorn, Wand'ring abroad in need and beggary, And wanting friends, though of ...
How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things (Michael Drayton Poem)
How many paltry foolish painted things, That now in coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no poet sings, ...
It came his turn to beg — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It came his turn to beg -- The begging for the life Is different from another Alms 'Tis Penury in ...
As if I asked a common Alms (Emily Dickinson Poem)
As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, ...
A Field of Stubble, lying sere (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Field of Stubble, lying sere Beneath the second Sun -- Its Toils to Brindled People thrust -- Its Triumphs ...
In rags mysterious as these (Emily Dickinson Poem)
In rags mysterious as these The shining Courtiers go -- Veiling the purple, and the plumes -- Veiling the ermine ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
On – On – Poet (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
On – On – Poet (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
THE SEVEN OLD MEN (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
O SWARMING city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in ...
The Twins (Robert Browning Poem)
Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick ...
Consolation (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...