The Jewish Cemetery at Newport (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves, Close by the street of this fair seaport town, Silent beside ...
Poems about jacob (31 Poems)
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The ...
Le Manteau De Pascal (Jorie Graham Poem)
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
Tired by His Journey (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
By the well of Jacob Christ sat to rest tired by his journey but offering her a drink the well ...
Crushed in the Realization (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Rich Man deflated staring at his poverty crushed in the realization that he could not follow Christ there before ...
We Would Know God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As with the ancient people those of the descendants of Abraham, of Jacob the flock of David We would know ...
A Murmur of Commission (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A foretaste of promise of the rising of a people the children of Abraham bearing fruit for the kingdom From ...
As Jacob before Esau (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Trembling at the altar the gates of eternity as Jacob before Esau some day each of us shall be Aware ...
Descendants of Abraham (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We all, through our faith children, with Isaac, with Jacob with Christ, the same all descendants of Abraham the father ...
A Promise of A Future (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like Abraham, like Isaac, like Jacob, even like Moses God's gift to us our hope like theirs a promise of ...
Paths to God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my faith, my tradition one path, Christ the way, the narrow gate atoning for sin an offering, the lamb ...
His Blessing a Blessing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Struggling, wrestling with God this flawed patriarch, Jacob, stealing a birthright, usurper Holding on for a blessing, a blessing from ...
Jacob, I Understand (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fall on the ice, two plus year ago a concave spot, in my left hip, where it once was ...
Brothers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Brothers killing brothers, fighting brothers, hating each other for minor things, petty differences selfish desires, cheap greed, anger, position, power ...
Waiting and Hoping (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A people waiting, hoping, believing in their covenant with God with the many blessings given by God by the hope ...
Praying in the Wilderness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Praying in the wilderness, a metaphor for the prayers of the people chosen by God, the children of Abraham, of ...
Arguing with God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wrestling with God, no that didn't get Jacob too far just a pain in the hip he carried the rest ...
A Thorn in My Side (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I am weak; thank you God for my humility, for the impediment to my vanity, that forces me to rely ...
The Testimony Of Light (Carolyn Forche Poem)
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side (John Donne Poem)
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side, Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me, For I have ...
A little East of Jordan, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard -- Till morning ...
Exhortation to Prayer (William Cowper Poem)
What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, But ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Rebecca (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably A trick that everyone abhors In little girls is slamming doors. A ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Holy-Cross Day (Robert Browning Poem)
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
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 ...