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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky
Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray.
Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds


A MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You remember, dear, together
Last Line: In the purple, ample night.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Childhood


A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities
Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime


A PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O holy spirit of the hazel, hearken now
Last Line: This wild-rose blossom of thy spirit fades away.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer; Holy Spirit


A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day
Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls


A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silent the vast of night
Last Line: And share my brothers' silence.
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime


AD ASTRA: 132, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grant this mute sense stirs in the brute creation
Last Line: It differentiates the brute from man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Mankind; Nature - Religious Aspects; Human Race


AD ASTRA: 153, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But when the body with dread pain is bow'd
Last Line: To discipline his will to god's command!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects


ANY TIME, O LORD, by JOSEPHINE VAN DOLZEN PEASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky is sweet
Last Line: Untitled
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects


AUTUMN, by A. W. RANSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the grass strange shadows play
Last Line: While god the nearer seems.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year
Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


CHANT OF THE SPRING RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rain like the rustling of fine garments
Last Line: "and this is life and its mystery!"
Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain; Spring; Weather


CIRCLE OF DAYS, by REEVE LINDBERGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, we offer thanks and praise
Last Line: Around the circle of our days
Subject(s): Creation; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Nature - Religious Aspects; Saints


CONTINUITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: No sign is made while empires pass
Last Line: Some yet more lovely masterpiece.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; God; Life; Nature - Religious Aspects


COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed
Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer.
Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight


COURTESY, by DANIEL SARGENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blessed be god who made such pretty briches
Last Line: The beach grass the embroidery of the wave.
Subject(s): Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects


DAYBREAK, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!
Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun!
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise


DEO GRATIAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thanks be to god for golden afterglory
Last Line: Thanks be to god for life's bright afterglow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Nature - Religious Aspects


DUSK, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress
Last Line: Into the vast of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dusk; God; Nature - Religious Aspects


EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood
Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


EVENING STAR, by ESTHER REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At night
Last Line: Of god.
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Stars; Bedtime


FLOWERS, by H. W. SLOAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my garden there are flowers
Last Line: It takes god to make a flower.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects


FUGUE, by MARJORIE L. WOLFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A jagged line of trees in grayish green
Last Line: In repetition of the theme,—god's will.
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects


GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: God sat down with the farmer
Last Line: A toiler more old than toil.
Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers


GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes
Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade.
Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth


GOD'S HAND IS CUPPED, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the crickery heart of the turtle
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Turtles


HARVEST ODE, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When erst, by eden's guarded gate
Last Line: Our father's manly toil.
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature - Religious Aspects; Odes (as Poetic Form)


HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground
Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own.
Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HYMN, by MARIE JOSEPH BLAISE CHENIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Source of all truth, blasphemed by every liar
Last Line: The incense of pure pray'r!
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects


ICICLES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This fragile witchery of frost
Last Line: That leads unto the central sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Cold; Frost; God; Ice; Nature - Religious Aspects


IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass
Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


IN THE HIGH HILLS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God has lent the wind to you
Last Line: Winds and storms and sunny days and sparkling, dawn-wet brush.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects


INDIAN SUMMER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When maples flaunt their colors far and near
Last Line: —presbyterian advance
Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road
Last Line: "and blur the dream!"
Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


JUST CALIFORNIA, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twixt the seas and the deserts
Last Line: The middle of the world.
Subject(s): California; Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects


LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air
Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Variant Title(s): Landscapes
Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees


LAST OF THE VIRGIN SOD, by R. G. RUSTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We broke today on the homestead
Last Line: To have marred that work of god?
Subject(s): God; Landscape; Nature - Religious Aspects


LOVE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daily tribute of the sun
Last Line: Shall love its purposes fulfil.
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun


MAY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blooming, brooding, balmy may
Last Line: The god of nature, light, and love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


MOTHER AND CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O come, little mary, the woods are in tune
Last Line: The kingdom of heaven, and the light of his face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


MOTHER'S GARDEN, by ALICE G. WARDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother's garden, seems to me
Last Line: God reached down an' cared for it, too.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature - Religious Aspects


NATURE AND THE POET, by SHIMEON FRUG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My rabbi was nature-she set me to learn
Last Line: A poet, my brothers, a poor jewish poet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich
Subject(s): Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Judaism


NOCTURNE, by PATRICIA BURNS FLINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night is so beautiful, I watch it on my knees
Last Line: Make life so marvelous, I live it on my knees.
Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Bedtime


NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two rising flukes of green water
Last Line: Must bear away the most meat.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean


ON EVERY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The fingerprints of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): God; Maps; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


OUR HOME IN THE WOODS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the birds in the spring of the year sweetly sing
Last Line: For all nature's great world is our own.
Subject(s): Forests; Home; Nature - Religious Aspects; Woods


OUTWARD BOUND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world
Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field
Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing
Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led."
Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism


PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream
Last Line: Long grass.
Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery


PRESENCE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: If massive peaks appear sometimes as cloud
Last Line: The flame of god can set a soul on fire.
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects


PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown
Last Line: On old presidio hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SOLACE, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through silver rifts the moon's calm radiance slips
Last Line: God wills it so, my love, god wills it so!
Subject(s): God; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sky


SONG IN SEASON, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho, time to fish again! And I shall go
Last Line: My soul has caught a rapturous glimpse of god.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature - Religious Aspects


SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother
Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother!
Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight


SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream
Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze.
Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks


SPRING KISSES, by SALLIE GAFFNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A raindrop spattered on my upturned face
Last Line: So god leaned down, and kissed me once again.
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain


STAR TRACKS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone in bed at night I lie
Last Line: Shine out like stars upon the grass.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Stars


SUMMONS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eager night and the impetuous winds
Last Line: Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Aging; Messengers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Voices


THE CHILD HEART, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shy flowers smile in the face of their father the bountiful bright one
Last Line: And serve them ever with gladness, and learn to be pure and good.
Subject(s): Good; Love; Nature - Religious Aspects


THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years
Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees.
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DESERTED PASTURE, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the stony pasture
Last Line: To pitch their tents therein.
Subject(s): Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Perseverance; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that the earth is still the same
Last Line: Careless if on his face were smile or frown?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; World


THE FOUNTS OF SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the song I am singing?'
Last Line: "in these dumb solitudes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology


THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift
Last Line: Over the secret sea.
Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips


THE GOD OF THE SEASONS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god of the seasons! We bring
Last Line: To dwell in the light of thy face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons


THE HEAVENS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What alps of clouds! The distant, airy deep
Last Line: Forever done with death and pain and tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sky


THE HILL-BORN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who are born of the hills
Last Line: In the hills you will find your god again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Theology


THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep
Last Line: Wait what it saith!
Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep


THE NATURALIST ON A JUNE SUNDAY, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My old gardener leans on his hoe
Last Line: "amen!"" says he."
Subject(s): June; Nature - Religious Aspects


THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star
Last Line: And taming its raging waves.
Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the voice in the corries
Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind


THE SOUTH WIND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the kiss of love and the soul of song
Last Line: When he quiets the earth by the south wind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Wind


THE STORM, by ANNA A. ARMBRUSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A storm rides in the sky
Last Line: Of nature, man, and god.
Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Storms


THE VOICE OF THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the greyhound river windeth
Last Line: Where the stars like dewdrops glistened on the mountain slope of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects


THINK ON GOD, by R. E. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forget thee, oh my god! And can this be?
Last Line: Your maker is your life, your soul's delight.
Subject(s): God; Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Judaism; Theology


TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee
Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers


TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Butterfly
Last Line: While with thee I wander!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky
Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief.
Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing
Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb.
Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs


UNCONSCIOUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds, the stars, and the skies though
Last Line: Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


WEEK-END SONNETS, by JOHN FRENCH WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come out to our house any week-end in june
Last Line: To dance among the red chrysanthemums.
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects


WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer!
Last Line: And ponders on the world to come.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


WYUKA, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When purple shadows tint the west
Last Line: Watched over by a god of love.
Subject(s): God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


YOSEMITE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most glorious temple! Open flung
Last Line: And seraph-tongued are earth and air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Yosemite Valley And National Park