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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL SOUL'S DAY, by JACK COULEHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On all soul's day when I call his name
Last Line: Silently chewing, almost swallowing, %the sharp black notes of his clarinet
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOUL'S DAY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the church on all soul's day
Last Line: For us who live -- for us who live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night


ALL SOUL'S DAY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet with amber light
Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring.
Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The


ALL SOULS DAY, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Justorum anumae in manu dei sunt
Last Line: The candles shed their flame, and it is written: %the souls of the just are in the hand of god
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What have I
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From dooryards, mothers are calling their children
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by OTTO FREUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The patient dead have slept, year after year, %upon this qui
Last Line: The harvest of november rains will be %december snows
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gina has lighted a large candle for her dead
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gina's lit candle for her dead. She lit it
Last Line: Include some of the living too, half-alive, %waiting for theferry- a passel of nobodies %who never p
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close-wrapped in living thought I stand
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by LINARDS (ARNOLDS BERZS) TAUNS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' DAY, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today is theirs - the unforgotten dead
Last Line: They, the poor dead whom none remembered.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R.
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it was promised so I beheld
Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned.
Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees


ALL-HALLOWS EVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreadful hour is sighing for a moon
Last Line: And two will linger at the tryst alway.
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Love; Magic; Rites & Ceremonies; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night


OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel
Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans


SOULERS' SONG FROM CHESHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You gentlemen of england, I would have you to draw near
Last Line: For we'll come no more a-souling until another year
Subject(s): All Souls' Day


SOULERS' SONG FROM CHESHIRE (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soul day, soul day, saul
Last Line: Up with your kettle, and down with your pan, %give us an answer, and let us be gone
Subject(s): All Souls' Day