There are 319 Poems about Christianity
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Bible Defense of Slavery
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“Imagine Lucifer . . .” 
By Jack Spicer
Paradise Lost: Book I
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IV
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book X
By John Milton
Adam Means Earth*
By Samuel Menashe
A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti
A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning
A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet
A Dirge 
By Thomas James Merton
A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens
A Hopkins Rumble, 1999 
By John Hazard
A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne
A Hymn to God the Father
By Ben Jonson
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw
A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Song to David
By Christopher Smart
A Story
By Colette Inez
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick
Aaron
By George Herbert
Adam
By Federico García Lorca
Adam's Prayer 
By Amanda Jernigan
Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns
Advent 
By Donald Hall
Advent 
By Nate Klug
After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell
Agape 
By Timothy Murphy
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
Air and Angels
By John Donne
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
By Edmund Spenser
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon
An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall
An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
By Geoffrey Hill
An Auto-da-fé 
By Kevin McFadden
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton
Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Ark
By Camille T. Dungy
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ash Wednesday
By Louis Untermeyer
At Chartres 
By Katy Didden
At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett
At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay
Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton
Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville
“The Vision of Saint Augustine” 
By Beverley Bie Brahic
“Your Luck Is About To Change” 
By Susan Elizabeth Howe
Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe
Becune Point 
By Derek Walcott
Before You 
By Carl Rakosi
Behind the Prytaneum 
By T. Zachary Cotler
Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright
Blessed Assurance
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne
Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson
brothers
By Lucille Clifton
Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy
Chekhov’s “The Student” (April, 1894)
By Brian Culhane
Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan
Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Christmas Tree Lots 
By Chris Green
Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny
Conches on Christmas 
By Mike Chasar
crossing into canaan 
By D.A. Powell
De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis
Deed
By Josephine Miles
Descending Theology: The Resurrection 
By Mary Karr
Disgraceland 
By Mary Karr
Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw
Done is a Battle
By William Dunbar
Dreamer
By Primus St. John
Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Easter Wings
By George Herbert
Eden 
By Ina Rousseau
Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth
Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn
Eve's Design 
By Moira Linehan
far memory
By Lucille Clifton
For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley
For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley
For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas
Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson
Four Fibs
By A.E. Stallings
Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada
Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill
Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven 
By Vachel Lindsay
Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling
Gnostic
By Honor Moore
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne
Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey
Hail 
By Mary Szybist
He Lit a Fire with Icicles 
By Kay Ryan
Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon
Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira
Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne
Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake
How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz
How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate
Huswifery
By Edward Taylor
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne
Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
By John Wesley
I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
By Edward Taylor
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson
I Heard an Angel
By William Blake
I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson
Illuminated Page 
By Jennifer O'Grady
In Church
By Peter Balakian
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
By William Wordsworth
Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake
Iraqi Boy 
By Elizabeth Arnold
jesus knew
By Nick Flynn
Jesus Returns
By Cynthia Macdonald
Jordan (I)
By George Herbert
from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart
Last Lines
By Anne Brontë
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens
Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton
Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger
Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson
Love (I)
By George Herbert
Love (II)
By George Herbert
Love (III)
By George Herbert
Loves
By Scott Cairns
Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary
Magnificat 
By Eleanor Wilner
Man
By George Herbert
Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall
Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson
Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan
Milton by Firelight
By Gary Snyder
Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley
Mount Angel 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell
Mums
By Bernadette Mayer
my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton
My Madonna
By Robert W. Service
Neo-Thomist Poem
By Ernest M. Hemingway
No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë
Noah’s Wife 
By Linda Gregerson
O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me 
By John Ciardi
Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Original Sin
By Robinson Jeffers
Outbreak
By Donald Revell
Painting over Aya Sofia 
By Caleb Klaces
Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton
Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio
Peace
By Henry Vaughan
Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas
Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill
Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas
Prayer
By Marin Sorescu
Prayer (I)
By George Herbert
Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer
Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez
Re-Incarnation
By Eva Gore-Booth
Reading Saint John of the Cross 
By Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling
Religious Instruction
By Mina Loy
Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World 
By Mary Barnard
Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert
Roosters
By Elizabeth Bishop
Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero
Saints’ Logic
By Linda Gregerson
Satire III
By John Donne
seventh heaven
By Patti Smith
Sin (I)
By George Herbert
Singing School
By Seamus Heaney
Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Slavery
By Hannah More
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
By Emily Dickinson
Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree 
By George Starbuck
Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte
Stomackes 
By Albert Goldbarth
Sunday Morning 
By Wallace Stevens
Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith
Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill
Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert
The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill 
By Hayden Carruth
The Airy Christ
By Stevie Smith
The Altar
By George Herbert
The Animals
By Josephine Jacobsen
The Antagonism
By Thom Gunn
The Ballad of God-Makers
By G. K. Chesterton
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning
The Bounty
By Derek Walcott
The British Church
By George Herbert
The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ
The Calm
By John Donne
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake
The Collar
By George Herbert
The Convert
By G. K. Chesterton
The Coronet
By Andrew Marvell
The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce
The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton
The Elixir
By George Herbert
The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats
The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet
The Funeral
By John Donne
The Future
By Matthew Arnold
The Garden
By Andrew Marvell
the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton
The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More
The Hold-fast
By George Herbert
The House of Rest
By Julia Ward Howe
The Incarnate
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero
The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lamb
By William Blake
from the Last Canto of Paradiso 
By Dante Alighieri
The Little Black Boy
By William Blake
The New Religion
By Chris Abani
The Nuns Assist at Childbirth 
By Barbara Howes
The Other Place 
By William Logan
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Pearl
By George Herbert
The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Preface
By Edward Taylor
The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson
The Pulley
By George Herbert
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell
The Quip
By George Herbert
The Rainbow
By David Baker
The Relic
By John Donne
The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Song of the Birds 
By Anonymous
The Star
By Henry Vaughan
The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Temper (I)
By George Herbert
from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate
The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti
The Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir
from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill
The Tyger
By William Blake
The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Virgin
By William Wordsworth
The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan
The Widow of Naim
By Thomas James Merton
The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann
The World
By Henry Vaughan
The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz
They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan
To Heaven
By Ben Jonson
To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber) 
By Averill Curdy
Torcello 
By Catherine Sasanov
from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese
Unholy Women
By Chris Abani
Update on the Last Judgment 
By Ellen Hinsey
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
By Edward Taylor
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor
Veni, Creator Spiritus
By John Dryden
Vision
By Marjorie Pickthall
What are the Days?
By Colette Inez
When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton
Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez
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